The Immigration Department has signed off on an order to deport Bangladeshi opposition politician MA Quayum.

This is despite the Kuala Lumpur High Court granting a stay of deportation to the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader, who turns 61 in three days.

Quayum is a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) card-holder.

According to documents sighted by Malaysiakini, the deportation order was...