COMMENT The one person who could have driven a stake through the heart of the rumour that Pakatan Rakyat’s top brass had recently propositioned Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah about being opposition leader did so in inimitable style.

Nik Aziz Nik Mat, the PAS spiritual adviser, gave the rumour short shrift yesterday by calling it a “joke” whose deceitful perpetrators, he said, would have to account for it in the hereafter.

It is unlikely that the possibility of incurring divine displeasure would deter the guilty ones; they are the more certain to resort to still more ingenious ways to obtain their objective.

This is the torpedoing of the Pakatan ship before it can dock at Putrajaya by floating the theory that Anwar Ibrahim is a liability to the opposition coalition and therefore must be jettisoned...