If the government can fork out billions of ringgit on various things, PKR lawmaker Imran Abdul Hamid says, it should also pay the RM6 million to save the two Malaysians being held hostage in Southern Phillippines for more than five months.

The Lumut MP was one of almost dozen Pakatan Rakyat MPs who urged the government to take definitive action to solve the plight of the kidnapped Sabahans, who include a policeman and a fish farm owner.

However, Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi dismissed this.

"The government's policy is not to entertain any ransom (demands), even for police officers," Zahid told reporters on the sidelines of a function at Bukit Aman in Kuala Lumpur today.

The minister said he had to maintain this tough stance, even when one of the victim's wife and parents sought his help.

However, Zahid said, efforts to rescue the two hostages were ongoing but he was not at liberty to disclose the details.

Earlier today, Chin Pek Nyuen, the wife of the kidnapped fish farmer Chan Sai Chiun, appeared in Parliament for the second time in two weeks.

Despite making an appeal to the government through a memorandum last week, Chin is still getting calls from the kidnappers, almost on a daily basis, and they are demanding a ransom of RM3 million for Chan alone.

The kidnappers have now set a new deadline of Nov 30 for the ransom to be paid, failing which, they threatened, they would kill Chan.

PKR's Penampang MP Darrell Leiking questioned the police for not tracing and monitoring the calls even though the kidnappers had been calling Chin everyday.

Additional reporting by Zikri Kamarulzaman