The PAS leadership must stop paying tug-of-war with Umno and reassess the offer to work together with the party in the coming 14th general election (GE14), PAS' advisory board chairperson Mustafa Ali said.

He said collaboration with Umno, as proposed by Umno information chief Annuar Musa in early October, would be the best alternative for PAS to win more seats in GE14.

“To me, accepting it does not mean we are with BN... and I do not think that Annuar would invite PAS to join Umno... if he did, I personally would not agree to it and would fight it.

“If we want to discuss this collaboration, there are many concepts, like that of ‘tahaluf’ and ‘tabayyun’... which I feel Umno and PAS can discuss... for the sake of the country’s future.

“However, I have yet to see a serious response from the PAS leadership. When there is no serious response, I think something is not right,” Mustafa told reporters in Kuala Terengganu today.

He added that there had been some discussions about this collaboration but the proposal was never finalised.

- Bernama