A PAS leader has made an impassioned plea to his Pakatan Rakyat  colleagues to stop the public warfare and for his colleagues at PAS to convene its central committee meeting immediately to settle all problems definitively.
 
"Please my friends, wake up from the preoccupation and ruthless cyclical trap with this destruction and shouting, enough is enough of destroying Pakatan Rakyat!
 
"Immediately convene a Pakatan presidential council meeting [sic] (PAS central committee meeting) to arrest the self-destruction without waiting for on Aug 10 to manage this terrible crisis," PAS central committee member Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad said in a Facebook message this morning.

(He later clarified with Malaysiakini that he had been referring to the PAS central committee meeting, slated for Aug 10, and not the Pakatan presidential council meeting when writing his post.)
 
Dzulkefly said waiting 10 days for a meeting was "too long in politics, and the mass media", reminding his colleagues that their fierce in-fighting is being conducted in full public view.
 
"It would be a tragedy if Pakatan Rakyat ends here…," he added.

He is the second PAS leader to call for the Islamic party to expedite the central committee meeting, echoing the sentiments of Youth chief Suhaizan Kaiat.

Urging his colleagues to stop “shooting among themselves”, Dzulkefly further pointed out how their faces have been making the front pages of newspapers.

“Isn’t it weird that you are given the space (on the front pages of newspapers)?

“The space is given because you are shooting among yourselves! Stop doing so because you are only the laughing stock of our political rivals.”

'Fight for rakyat, not yourselves'

The former Kuala Selangor MP lamented how the rakyat’s perception on them has changed, where party members are seen to only fight for the interests of their cliques.

He also disagreed that only divine intervention could save Pakatan at this point, saying that Allah would not change a man’s fate unless he himself wanted to change it.

“The priority now is to unite everyone in a particular organisation. If the party leadership fails to do this, history will punish you.

“You (warring PAS members) will be seen as the ones who permitted Pakatan to split and will be seen as the ones responsible in triggering the crisis."

At the end of his post, however, he stated that these were his personal view, lest he be accused of not going through "proper party channels".

BN can get the last laugh

In a joint statement today, the Perak Pakatan Rakyat Youth, too, called for the coalition to put aside their differences and focus on the common goal of winning the 14th general election.

“The common cause and solidarity is more important than the differences among each other. We believe that a mutual agreement can achieved from the disputes ” it said.

The statement was signed by Perak PAS Youth chief Raja Iskandar Al-Hiss, Perak DAP Youth chief Wong Kah Woh and Perak PKR Youth chief Zafril Mohd Eusoff.

They drew parallels to Pakatan Rakyat in Perak, which grew closer following BN's coup in the state despite initial differences between the component parties.

The group also pleaded for party members not to be swayed by ploys to separate the coalition, which would see Umno get the last laugh.

“The joint government formed by Pakatan during the 2008 election in Perak should always be remembered as the benchmark of what can be achieved if the three parties stay united” said the trio.

Meanwhile, singing a different tune, Ikatan Muslimin Malaysia (Isma) president Abdullah Zaik Abdul Rahman said this case has shown PAS’ position in the Pakatan alliance to be “inconsequential (melukut di tepi gantang)”.

According to Ismaweb, Abdullah accused PAS of lowering its dignity to DAP and this, he said, does not reflect a Muslim’s characteristics of honour and courage to stand alone.

He further warned that this situation has the potential to destroy Islam and the Malays if Pakatan is allowed to rule.