A lawyer representing deported Pakistani Syed Fawad Ali Shah has lambasted the home minister over his parliamentary reply stating the journalist was arrested last year for not having a valid entry pass.

P Waytha Moorthy in a statement claimed that the Immigration Department misled Saifuddin Nasution Ismail into providing the answer to justify Syed Fawad's deportation.

The Malaysia Advancement Party president also alleged that immigration, which at the time was led by Khairul Dzaimee Daud, had colluded with...