ANWAR'S ARREST 'WRONG'

KUALA LUMPUR: Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim, Parti Keadilan Rakyat's candidate contesting the Bandar Tun Razak parliamentary seat, showed a documentary in which former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad admitted he was wrong in arresting his then deputy Anwar Ibrahim.

About 200 people watched the documentary aired during a rally at the Sri Melaka estate on Saturday. It was not clear who had filmed it or where and when it was filmed, the Nanyang Siang Pau paper reported yesterday.

The documentary, which came with Malay subtitles, showed Tun Dr Mahathir saying: 'There was actually no reason for me to use the ISA to arrest Anwar. He did not do anything wrong at all.'

The former prime minister also admitted in the documentary that Datuk Seri Anwar had been treated inappropriately.

BN ACCUSES PAS OF FAKE VOTERS

KOTA BARU: Kelantan Barisan Nasional has accused Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) of being guilty of phantom or cloned voters.

On Sunday, PAS vice-president Husam Musa had alleged there were 'cloned' voters as his party had identified a few postal voters who were also registered as normal voters.

State BN chairman Annuar Musa retorted: 'Our suspicion is that this issue was raised to protect themselves. We have no knowledge about these cloned voters...Maybe those who are talking about it are doing it themselves.'

Datuk Annuar said the BN was having difficulty in identifying more than 118,000 of the 751,000 registered voters in the state.

'For this election, we will monitor these voters. We will find out the names of those we do not know, and we will wait for them to turn up,' he said.

'But from a legal point of view, there is nothing we can do to object against this.'

VOTING SINCE FIRST GE

MARANG: Mr Osman Abdul Rahman is 104 and has faithfully exercised his right to vote since the country's first general election.

Married 11 times but with no children, he is a voter in the 'hot' Ru Rendang state seat in the Marang parliamentary constituency. The incumbent is Parti Islam SeMalaysia president Abdul Hadi Awang.

Yesterday, the Barisan Nasional (BN) candidate for the seat, Mr Razali Idris, visited Mr Osman to seek his support for the March 8 polls.

When asked which party he would vote for, the centenarian said: 'The weighing scale! (BN's symbol) What else?'

-THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK

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