Former Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chief Nur Jazlan Mohamed is confident that Rompin MP Hasan Arifin will be able to perform well as the new PAC chief.

He also hopes Hasan, who has been nominated for the post in the Dewan Rakyat today, would be able to gain the cooperation of both government and opposition MPs in the committee.

He said MPs from both sides of the political divide should cooperate with Hasan, as they had done with him during his tenure.

"I believe PAC is a place that the people can trust, and the PAC report needs to be made by consensus.

"Let there be no quarrels or fragmentation, and that recommendations are agreed upon by both sides," he told reporters when met in Kuala Lumpur today after attending a function hosted by the Malaysia-Bosnia and Herzegovina Business Council.

The PAC had been investigating the troubled government-owned firm 1MDB, when proceedings were abruptly halted in July.

It was about to question current and former 1MDB chief executives when Nur Jazlan and three other BN parliamentarians in the committee were co-opted into the government administration as part of a cabinet reshuffle.

The investigation has been put on hold since, pending the appointment of new members for the committee by the Dewan Rakyat.

Nur Jazlan is now the deputy minister of home affairs.

On another matter, Nur Jazlan said Malaysia can draw from its experience of housing Bosnian refugees to handle the Syrian refugees that the government has pledged to shelter.

"The setting up of a framework to bring in Syrian refugees can draw from the experiences of the framework used to bring in Bosnian refugees back then.

"As we have seen today, the Bosnian refugees that we have taken in have been able to get higher education, get jobs in Malaysia, and many have also gone to their home countries to conduct various activities such as business," he said.

Malaysia had previously received 200 hundred Bosnian refugees in the 1990's, during the Bosnian War.

In a speech to the UN General Assembly on Oct 1, Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak had pledged that Malaysian would take in 3,000 Syrian refugees, as the Middle Eastern country is embroiled in a chaotic civil war between several armed groups.

However, Nur Jazlan said there are no new developments in Malaysia's move to take in the Syrian refugees, as the details are still being ironed out.

Previously on Oct 8, Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said that placement of the refugees would take place in stages over three years, with preference given to professional and semi-skilled people.