Veterans group Persatuan Patriot Kebangsaan (Patriot) said today that it would be "virtually impossible" for any party to disband the Royal Malay Regiment due constitutional safeguards, as well as its long history.

Patriot president Mohamad Arshad Raji said he and other retired Royal Malay Regiment officers were left “puzzled, confused and apprehensive” over remarks made by Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak about the oldest unit of the army's infantry regiments...