Aide comes to minister's defence, accusing reporter of tarnishing PAS ' image

An aide to Minister in the Prime Minister's Department (Religious Affairs) Idris Ahmad has accused a journalist of attempting to portray PAS in a bad light after the minister was pressed to answer a question on the gambling ban in Kedah.

This came after Free Malaysia Today (FMT) published an article on how Idris and Deputy Human Resources Minister Awang Hashim turned confrontational with the reporter yesterday.

FMT reported that Idris pointedly asked the journalist if she could tolerate her husband being a gambler, while Awang insisted...