Pakatan Harapan chairperson Dr Mahathir Mohamad has fired a vitriolic salvo against PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang.

Accusing Hadi of working with Umno to split opposition votes in the coming general election, the former premier labelled him a “traitor" and "kafir" (infidel).

"Hadi knows well (PAS) is going to lose most of its seats but he is still helping Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak to win by splitting the opposition's votes.

"That's his intention and that's not Islamic. In Malay, we call that being a ' pengkhianat ' (traitor)," he told reporters in Putrajaya this morning...