PAS chief to face Malaysian police over claims US would help ‘topple’ government

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Malaysian Islamist opposition leader Abdul Hadi Awang is under investigation by police following his claim that the US offered to help his party topple the Malaysian government, an allegation denied by Washington. The political controversy surfaced during the PAS congress in Kelantan.

Malaysian police have contacted Islamist opposition leader Abdul Hadi Awang over his explosive claim that the United States once offered to help his party topple the government – an allegation Washington has flatly dismissed as false. The controversy erupted after Hadi told thousands of delegates at the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) congress in Kelantan on Saturday that American representatives had approached party leaders when Barack Obama visited Malaysia in 2014. Hadi’s political...