March 12, 2018 6:40 PM

KUALA LUMPUR – Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) on Monday (March 12) said that its election manifesto will not mention the controversial pledge to turn Malaysia into an “Islamic state” and will instead mainly address woes faced by many Malaysians, including cost-of-living issues, reducing the income gap between rural and urban areas and increasing disposable income. Leaders of the Islamist party told a news conference that it would ensure that the country’s legal and administrative systems follow “the requirements of the syariah” (Islamic law) as well as return state rights which they said had been taken away by the federal

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