Utusan Malaysia is not a party mouthpiece like PAS’ Harakah , that it could not criticise its leaders, said its editor Ku Seman Ku Hussain.

Instead, he said Utusan acts as a newspaper and has the freedom to criticise leaders.

“I am given freedom by the management and I believe the freedom was given by Umno to criticise because Utusan is different from Harakah .