KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 6 ― PAS will not disclose amendments to Kelantan’s hudud law or explain private member's bills on the same that it will table in Parliament, despite allies’ demand for access when Pakatan Rakyat parties meet this Sunday.

Kelantan Mentri Besar Datuk Ahmad Yaakob said PKR and DAP will eventually get to view the documents on the proposed amendments to the Syariah Criminal Code II Enactment 1993, but not before after these are approved in the state assembly sitting this coming March.

“It is possible, we are ready to disclose but they will have to wait as it is still under embargo.

“The amendments have to first be officially passed at the Kelantan state assembly sitting,” Ahmad told Malay Mail Online when contacted.

Opposition Leader and PKR de facto head Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has demanded that PAS explain its latest plan to implement hudud law in Kelantan, saying that the best time to do so would be during the PR presidential council meeting this Sunday.

Anwar said PKR and DAP have not even seen either the private member’s bill or the amendments to the Syariah Criminal Code II 1993, which was passed by the Kelantan state assembly over 20 years ago.

Ahmad said, however, that the Kelantan enactment will not be fundamentally changed and will remain intact bar minor updates.

“The hudud technical committee has already gone through several levels in obtaining feedback from legal experts, NGOs and also PKR.

“This is just some amendments to the old bill, the issue does not arise,” Ahmad said in response.

The amendments, if passed by the Kelantan government at its state assembly meeting on March 16, will be inserted into two private member's bills to be tabled in Parliament at the same time.

On Wednesday, national news wire Bernama reported Mohd Amar as saying the state intends to table a private member’s bill at the next parliamentary meeting in March to allow hudud to be enforced there.

According to Amar, among the changes sought through the bills are the raising of penalties for offences in line with Quranic rules and the Sunnah or the way of the Prophet.

DAP and PAS have been butting heads over the Islamist party's plans to enforce hudud in Kelantan and more recently DAP’s proposal for PR to adopt Penang’s approach and enact state laws in Selangor and Kelantan to try to return the third vote to Malaysians.

PAS, however, accused DAP of acting unilaterally in seeking to restore local council elections, in apparent retaliation the latter’s vehement attacks over the Islamist party’s hudud ambition.