While talks are brewing about a new political alignment involving Umno and PKR, insiders at the largest Malay-based political party has dismissed that the two are going to tie formal cooperation soon.

Umno information chief Shahril Hamdan said the party is still holding on to its supreme council's decision not to work with PKR or DAP.

However, he said it is up to PKR president Anwar Ibrahim to claim that his party is in negotiation with Umno for political cooperation...