Harakah called in by Home Ministry, ‘reminded’ of roles and responsibilities

Harakah, PAS’ official organ has been called in by the Home Ministry in a week where publications of political parties don the headlines. The editor of the paper was called in an was reminded of their ‘roles and responsibilities as a publisher’. There were no discussion of any specific articles which were published. According to Harakah’s website, “The intention of meeting was for the ministry to advise the publisher to follow the guidelines outlined in the permit. Among these is for the publisher to provide eight copies of each issue to the ministry as soon as it is printed.”

Taufek Yahya, the editor met with Datuk Abdul Rahim Mohd Tadzi, the deputy secretary-general and Datuk Zaitun Ab Samad, the Publications and al-Quran text controls division secretary. He said “Harakah respects that the Home Ministry has a role to play but urged the ministry to respect the publisher in turn. The ministry should respect Harakah's role as an opposition organ and as a source of alternative news. The ministry had urged Harakah to be “more careful” while reporting “sensitive issues” like the sports betting licence, Jemaah Islamiah and the Federal Land Development Authority. By right, the ministry should know how to differentiate between national security issues and issues that undermine the ruling coalition. They are two different issues completely. The mainstream media reports negatively on Pakatan Rakyat as well as issues that go against the Pakatan-led governments, but this is not considered a security threat. The ministry should consider having a look at that too.”



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Idiots !!! Charity begins at home. Rope in all your goons first especially TDM and Perkasa before telling others. Oh, we find lots of racialist news/articles from BN controlled radio/tv/newspaper and no action or warning ever issued !

When is the Home Ministry going to call in the editors of the Utusan Melayu and Perkasa's publication to remind them of their proper roles as responsible publications.They won't I suppose as the Home Minister has no guts and is a racist who does not know whether he is coming or going

GE 13 and he will be out .