Why isn’t Women, Family and Community Development Minister Rina Harun coming to the defence of a group of women who are challenging discriminatory policies against them in relation to the granting of citizenship after the government described their efforts as “troublesome and frivolous”?

This was the question posed by ex-deputy women, family and community development minister Hannah Yeoh and ex-deputy home minister Mohd Azis Jamman. They are also the Segambut and Sepanggar MPs respectively...