Anwar as PM a positive step taken by Malaysia, says Saudi newspaper

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A COLUMNIST in the Saudi Arabian newspaper, Arab News, says the world is in chaos and it needed some positive news and that came with the appointment of Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim as the Prime Minister of Malaysia.

The columnist, Dr Azeem Ibrahim is director of special initiatives at the Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy in Washington DC.

He says Anwar’s appointment is also good news for the Muslim world and is one of the events that is happening across the globe that is worth stopping to mark the moment.

“One such tentative positive step was recently taken by Malaysia. Anwar, a perennial opposition leader, took office as prime minister last month. That he might do so seemed unlikely, even impossible, for more than two decades. In all that time, during crisis after crisis, scandal after scandal, Anwar toiled in the political wilderness. It was a very difficult road,” wrote Dr Azeem.

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