KUALA LUMPUR, June 16 — A PAS leader today suggested a new political pact involving Malay-Muslim parties, after DAP pronounced the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) “dead” earlier today.

“It is not impossible to reuse the formula of [Tan Sri] Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah who created the Angkatan Perpaduan Ummah (APU) dan Gagasan Rakyat,” PAS central working committee member Dr Zuhdi Marzuki said in a statement.

APU had been a coalition formed to contest the general elections in 1990 and 1995, consisting of Muslim parties: PAS, Umno splinter party Semangat 46, Malaysian Indian Muslim Congress (Kimma), and PAS spinoffs Barisan Jemaah Islamiah Se-Malaysia (Berjasa) and Parti Hizbul Muslimin Malaysia (Hamim).

Gagasan Rakyat was a second front involving Tengku Razaleigh-led Semangat 46 and non-Muslim-majority parties such as DAP and Parti Rakyat Malaysia.

Last year, Zuhdi allegedly “suggested” that PAS and arch-rivals Umno work together to take control of Selangor and shut out any dissent by minority groups when it comes to religious issues.

Ahead of PKR’s meeting tonight, Zuhdi urged PKR to decide whether it will continue its political cooperation with PAS, saying that PKR’s decision will determine whether the opposition parties will continue to govern in Selangor and Penang.

“Now it is up to PKR which leads Selangor to decide whether it wants to continue with a coalition with PAS in PR or not. If PKR also withdraws from PR, then it is not impossible that the Selangor state government becomes shaky,” Zuhdi said today.

“If PKR continues to be with PAS in PR, then it must decide whether it approves of DAP’s presence in Selangor government or not, in addition to decide whether to continue supporting DAP in Penang or not.”

DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng blamed Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang for the death of the coalition today, saying the PAS president’s recent actions as well as the PAS Muktamar’s decision to sever ties with DAP meant PR’s Common Policy Framework was broken.

PAS had on June 6 confirmed its decision to sever ties with DAP while still remaining in PR with PKR, after its motion to do so was approved without debate.

The two parties have been openly hostile over PAS’s ambition to enforce hudud in Kelantan.

The development drove DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang to declare PR dead and awaiting “funeral rites”.