Now that PAS' 61st muktamar is over, the question on everyone's mind is: What happens to Pakatan Rakyat?

The ulama wing's motion to sever ties with DAP has been approved at the committee stage without debate.

It is now up to PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang's all-ulama central leadership and the Syura Council to decide whether to execute the motion, and they will give their final word soon.

While DAP has already pronounced Pakatan is dead, sentiments from within PAS itself is quite mixed.

Several delegates have protested the decision to approve the "divorce" motion without debate, claiming it is their right to do so.

However, the new party bigwigs have stuck to their guns, claiming the issue is too sensitive for an open debate, and that the matter can be discussed without going through the muktamar.

With all the pro-Pakatan leaders purged from the party, PAS' fate in the seven-year-old opposition coalition is all but sealed.

As for the PAS grassroots, many are taking a wait-and-see approach, claiming they are only members who follow orders from the top.

Some, though, have expressed disappointment with the outcome of the muktamar, and blamed the 'chai' ( photo ) – a list of preferred candidates – used during the party polls, for breaking the status quo between ulamas and progressives.

Others blamed the pro-Pakatan faction themselves for earning the ire of its rank and file for not backing up Hadi enough from DAP's attacks.

It is still too early to say what would be the outcome of PAS' future with Pakatan Rakyat.

But Hadi himself has said that the party will remain committed in Pakatan.

Maybe all is not lost and there might be light at the end of the tunnel for Pakatan after all.