KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 6 — PAS deputy president Mohamad Sabu today dismissed DAP’s claim of an existing faction within the Islamist party bent on sabotaging ties between the three Pakatan Rakyat (PR) parties.

“That is a mere speculation,” Mohamad said during a news conference at the PAS headquarters here.

The DAP claimed today of a faction within PAS attempting to split the opposition pact by refusing to allow the PR presidential council — which is scheduled to meet on Sunday — a preview of Kelantan’s hudud proposal.

DAP national organising secretary Anthony Loke told Malay Mail Online that the meeting would serve as a good platform for PAS to explain its amendments to the Islamic criminal law and the private member's bills on the same issue that it will table in Parliament.

Mohamad said that the party's central committee — which will convene before Pakatan meets at 2pm on Sunday — will decide on the private members' bill on hudud.

However, he refused to disclose the specifics and repeatedly stated that: “We will know after the Sunday meeting.”

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

Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, who heads the three-party coalition has also called on PAS to fill PR in on its latest plan to implement hudud law in Kelantan, 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 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 Kelantan deputy mentri besar Datuk Mohd Amar Nik Abdullah 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 Mohd 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.