Harakah apologises, retracts offensive cartoon

comments     Arfa'eza A Aziz     Published     Updated

Hours after defending its decision to publish a cartoon depicting Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad with a pig's snout, opposition PAS' organ Harakah today issued an apology over the matter.

In a two-paragraph statement, editor Zulkifli Zulong said Harakah had no intention to humiliate anyone by publishing the caricature, drawn by cartoonist Zulkifli Anwar Haq - whose pen-name is Zunar - in the paper's latest edition.

Elaborating on the statement, Zulkifli told malaysiakini that the decision was made because the bi-monthly publication did not want to prolong the controversy over the issue.

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