KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 3 -- Datuk Seri Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man said most PAS leaders could not attend Tun Dr Hasmah Mohd Ali's funeral because they had prior commitments at home and abroad.

The party's deputy president said PAS had conveyed its condolences directly to former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and his family, according to Sinar Harian.

"We acknowledge that most PAS leaders had specific programmes on the day she passed away," he said at a press conference for the Zulkifli Muhammad Islamic Studies Convocation Ceremony (KUIZM) in Gombak today.

Tuan Ibrahim, who is also Perikatan Nasional's Pahang chairman, said the absence was not deliberate.

He cited his own involvement in a programme in Kelantan, along with Secretary-Gene...