PAS wants to help restore UM hall
KUALA LUMPUR: PAS wants to do its bit to restore Universiti Malaya's Dewan Tunku Canselor which was razed recently.Its vice-president Datuk Dr Hassan Ali said the matter was expected to be raised at the next PAS central working committee meeting on Sunday.
"We do not know yet in what form the contribution will be ... but I am not ruling out a donation drive among PAS supporters," he said yesterday.
Dr Hassan, who chairs the PAS education bureau, said he acknowledged that some current leaders of PAS and thousands of their supporters had seen their "graduation days" at the famous university hall.
However, the party's Youth chief Mahfuz Omar accused the Government of turning the fire into a witch-hunt to punish students.
He said the recent student arrests were proof that the Government was looking for excuses to "harass" students.
He said the authorities must release students arrested under the ISA or bring them to court if they had proof that the students had committed a crime.
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