KINI ROUNDUP | Here are the key headlines you may have missed yesterday, in brief.

Anwar takes heat

PKR secretary-general Saifuddin Nasution Ismail acknowledged that party de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim made a call to keep negotiations open with PAS, but said PKR is tied to certain political realities.

Veteran reformasi activist Hishamuddin Rais questioned whether Anwar could make proper decisions from prison, and said he should instead focus on producing his "magnum opus" (great work) from behind bars.

Political secretary to the Selangor menteri besar, Shuhaimi Shafie, stressed that Anwar was well-informed despite being in jail, and the people should not belittle his intellectual capacity.

Rizal Mansor, an aide to the prime minister's wife, said Hishamuddin was implicitly telling Anwar to "zip it".

SB head takes over as IGP

Special Branch chief Mohamad Fuzi Harun has been appointed the new inspector-general of police (IGP).

Outgoing IGP Khalid Abu Bakar said he had done his best during his tenure and had "no unfinished business."

Malaysiakini took a look at the highs and lows of Khalid's tenure.

DAP's Bukit Mertajam MP Steven Sim highlighted five points for the new IGP to "restore the police's dignity."

DAP to retaliate against PSM

Perak DAP chief Nga Kor Ming said his party will contest in the PSM-held parliamentary seat of Sungai Siput in light of PSM announcing that it will contest in DAP seats.

DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang said his party was supportive of Islamisation within the framework of the Federal Constitution.

However, MCA panned Lim for trying to cover-up its past mistake of working with PAS, while Umno claimed Lim merely said that for the general election and insisted DAP was anti-Islam.

Other Kinibites

An entertainment centre in Kota Damansara was hit with a Molotov cocktail, injuring one person.

Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak urged women to grant BN two-thirds majority so that the ruling coalition can amend the Federal Constitution to end unilateral conversions.

Najib boasted that Malaysia was ranked among the best countries to retire in, but noted that certain individuals refused to do so, in a thinly-veiled swipe against former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

The prime minister also emphasised the importance of the goods and services tax (GST), without which he said women's programmes couldn't be funded.

Communications and Multimedia Minister Salleh Said Keruak warned that a 10 to 15 percent swing of Malay voters to the opposition would allow DAP to control the country.