M'sian of Pakistan origin backs CJ
Published on: Thursday, April 02, 2015
Keningau: Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak Tan Sri Richard Malanjum has received support in his recent remarks on Pakistanis nationals entering Sabah illegally from an unlikely quarter – a Malaysian who came with his family to Sabah from the region now known as Pakistan.Liakayat Alli Khan, 58, whose family came along with two other families from Pakistan to Keningau in the 1940s, said former Member of Parliament Datuk Akbar Khan Abdulrahman should not have chided Malanjum for making those comments.Malanjum had called on the authorities to check the documents of every Pakistani in Sabah but came under fire from Akbar who condemned it as a racist rant and called on Malanjum to apologise or quit.
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"What the Chief Judge had said is true," he said, and strongly supported Malanjum's call that the authorities check on foreigners, including Pakistanis, who have just came to Sabah or Malaysia.He said these Pakistanis should not have obtained so easily the MyKad even though they have married locals and have children."The law is very specific in that they must go back to their country of origin," he said, Wednesday.According to him, when his family came to Sabah in the 1940s, his father joined the police, which at that time was under the British.
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In Keningau during that period, there were only two families of Pakistani origin."But I am baffled why there are now Pakistanis who have only been here between six months and one year and yet they already have the MyKad," he said.
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He said these Pakistanis came to Sabah using Pakistani passports but were able to carry out business activities.He claimed that some "forced" local women to marry them so that they could obtain the MyKad."Some even obtained Malay Bumiputera status so that their children could obtain scholarships and gain employment," he claimed.He said these new immigrants are now first class Bumiputera even though in reality they are 100 per cent Pakistani."I don't know how these people obtained the MyKad so fast but I agree that if they got it through dubious means, it must be cancelled," he said.Liakayat said he is ashamed of what the people from his former country have done.He said the new Pakistanis do not care about the cultures in Sabah pointing out that they even still wear the traditional Pakistani attire in their daily activities.Stay up-to-date by following Daily Express’s Telegram channel.
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