'As a friend, I would like to ask Kali to help me. Will he? Of course not, because I am not the son-in-law of the prime minister.'

On What's wrong in helping Khairy?

Syed Imran: I read with much interest the reasons given by my friend Datuk Kalimullah Masheerul Hassan as to why ECM Libra Avenue provided loans to Khairy Jamaluddin to purchase its shares.

As a friend, I would like to ask Kali to help me. Will he? Of course not, because I am not the son-in-law of the prime minister. I am of no use to Kali and his friends. This is a fact.

Yes, Kali was lucky to be assisted by "someone" to be what he is today. I am fully aware of his background. I knew Kali since he was a teenager in Kelawai, Penang. I knew him when he was a member of the India-based Tabligh missionary movement. I knew him when he started his journalism career with the local daily in Penang.

With such a background, will Kali help me to purchase ECM Libra Avenue shares, say worth RM9 million? Definitely no, and sadly I will not be laughing all the way to the bank.

Ibnu Hakeem: Kalimullah is again playing the spin game. He is not answering the question about the valuation of ECM Libra versus the value of Avenue Capital at the point of the merger, takeover, or whatever you want to call it.

What about the RM360 million worth of goodwill? This is a huge amount of goodwill valuation. How does he justify this amount of 'goodwill' value?

Also as shareholder of ECM Libra, Kalimullah had already made plans to merge with Avenue Capital - a company owned by the Ministry of Finance, or MOF. Therefore bringing in Khairy as a shareholder was not just helping any young man with a leg up in life. This was a young man whose father-in-law was the head of MOF, whose assets Kalimullah was after.

As a journalist, Kalimullah must be familiar with the concept of 'conflict of interest'? Is this situation of him giving a RM9.2 million loan to Khairy to buy a stake in his company ECM Libra, which was already planning to take over Avenue Capital, exempted from his understanding of 'conflict of interest'?

Dato Kalimullah, I too am not from a rich family. Can you lend me RM9.2 million and also allow me to buy, say, a 3% stake in ECM Libra? I promise I will pay back the loan - with interest...

HL Too: The very fact that Kalimullah is unable to understand what is wrong with helping Khairy is an eloquent testimony to what is wrong with this country and its culture of corruption.

According to him, there are many politicians and their children who own substantial shares in the firms listed on Bursa Malaysia. The implication, of course, is that what is sauce for the other political geese should also be sauce for the Khairy gander.

It is precisely because of such influence peddling and cronyism that was the hallmark of the Mahathir administration that we have such a culture of corruption in this country. The "leg up" extended to Khairy was influenced by the fact that the latter is the prime minister's son-in-law.

Kalimullah admitted as much when he said that "investment banking is about connections". What is wrong? Just because a practice is rampant doesn't make it right or honourable.

WIYA: Let Kalimullah answer these questions:

1. Would Kalimullah have given the loan to Khairy if he is not the PM's son-in-law?

2. There are 1,000 young, bright and smart guys out there. Yet Khairy was chosen. Why?

3. Is Kalimullah suggesting that he should be less transparent if given the chance to start all over again?

4. If this is what Kalimullah is like (wanting to be less transparent in order to get away with things) should Khairy be associated with him in the first place?

PT Tan: Justice is not only being done, but must be seen to be done. How about giving every Ali, Samy and Ah Seng the same leg up as expounded by Kalimullah? Too bad if you are the son-in-law of the PM. You must be seen to reject the leg up, not lap it up.

On PM: Khairy has right to sell shares

Contra Loss: The Star on Aug 14 reported: "Deputy Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin has revealed that he suffered losses amounting to RM200,000 when he sold his shares in ECM Libra Avenue Bhd."

It goes to show that this person can afford to lose RM200,000 and publicise it to the nation. Wow, what a great man Khairy is when I cannot afford even to lose RM100 at this time of high cost of living. I wish I could be like him - lose RM200,000 and bragged about it.

On Dr M's challenge: Swear on the Quran with me

Peter: I feel the bickering between Tun and Pak Lah had been going on for far too long. Both of them should know that it is not doing the country any good. Both of them claimed to put their love for the nation above all things. If really they are true to those words, they must be genuine in their pursuit of settlement.

Now Tun is very adamant that the government had offered to sell sand to Singapore in the negotiations for construction of the bridge. To prove him wrong, efforts by ministers had come out with explanations and declassification letters. But they don't really convince the public, let alone Tun, who might have privy to more information which the public do not know.

For the sake of the country, declassify all the documents relating to the bridge negotiations which took place after Tun had retired. Those documents speak louder than volumes of explanations forwarded so far.

As for the APs, have Rafidah come out with an explanation why the lion portion of the permits are given to only two persons. If there is no wrongdoing on her part, there should not be any problem in her explaining to the public the true reasons.

But so far, the only issue that was tackled professionally involved Proton. I believed the answers provided by the Proton management was satisfactory and Tun should not complain over this matter anymore.

Pak Lah and the ministers concerned seemed to be evading the real questions as far as the first two issues are concerned. Pak Lah, kindly prove Tun wrong once and for all and get on with your more important duties.