PARLIAMENT | Pakatan Harapan president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail has questioned the rationale behind the director-general of Special Affairs Department (Jasa) Mohd Puad Zarkashi receiving more than RM20,000 a month in wages.

Wan Azizah told the Dewan Rakyat today that this is more than the monthly salary of the communications and multimedia minister - who heads the ministry under which Jasa is located - but who only receives a salary of RM14,907 per month.

Under the Senarai Perjawatan 2018 (Staff List 2018), Jasa's director-general is paid up to RM20,592 a month under salary code VU7, which is more than the pay received by the communications and multimedia minister," she said.

"Jasa has a total staff of 272 and they will be paid RM12.8 million. What is the rationale for the emolument when Jasa is merely a campaigner for Umno-BN?" Wan Azizah asked...