Two PAS leaders' mobile numbers were allegedly hacked to disseminate messages yesterday aimed at fuelling the political crisis in Selangor.

 

'My mobile number was hacked and used by someone to send irresponsible text messages that did not originate from my mobile phone," Selangor PAS secretary Mohd Khairuddin Othman ( below ) said in a Facebook posting last night.

 

The message reads: "PAS president Hadi defends Selangor Menteri Besar Abdul Khalid Ibrahim because he is clean, not corrupt and disagrees with Anwar and PKR sweeping Selangor State Development Corporation's (PKNS) assets and big projects. PAS is made a step child in developmental projects."

 

The message went around hours after the PAS central committee yesterday unanimously decided to withdraw support for the embattled Khalid as menteri besar.

 

Shortly after the decision, Khairuddin issued a statement stating that Selangor PAS will comply with the party decision.

 

The hijacking of Khairuddin's mobile number for political sabotage is among many cases that have become a common place since the Sungai Limau by-election in Kedah last year.

 

In the Sungai Limau by-election held last November, former Kedah menteri besar Azizan Abdul Razak’s widow Faekah Sheikh Hamzah said her number had been hacked, on which text messages urging people to support the BN were sent out.

 

During the Kajang by-election in March, PKR leaders Azmin Ali, Tian Chua and Nurul Izzah's phone numbers were also hijacked to send messages critical of ally PAS to create internal friction among the coalition partners.

Likewise, several DAP leaders had their mobile numbers hijacked during the Bukit Gelugor by-election in May, during which racist text messages were sent out.

Warnings of 'Anwarinas'

Another victim was PAS central working committee member Nasrudin Hassan, who also reported a fake message using his telephone number sent last night.

 

"I have received a flood of messages asking me who is this (who sent the message).

"Reporters also tried to call me to verify the message that they had earlier received from my telephone number," he said on his Facebook .

 

The message read, "The (PAS) president is disappointed with the meeting this afternoon and left immediately and didn't attend the press conference.

 

"The true face of Anwarinas (Anwar supporters) in PAS are now clear.

 

"PAS is more afraid of Anwar and DAP than they are of Allah.

 

"PAS is doomed if it continues like this," read the message that Nasrudin included in his posting.

 

He said he never sent any message related to PAS' meeting yesterday.

 

"This is another piece of slander," he wrote.