KUALA LUMPUR, April 25 -- Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has reportedly said that redeveloping old housing areas in Kuala Lumpur is not an attempt to displace Malays, but a move to provide more dignified living conditions.

According to a report in Sinar Harian today, Anwar said that land status remains unchanged, including Malay Reserve Land and Malay Agricultural Settlement (MAS) land.

"I don't understand this kind of politics. Is the land Malay Reserve Land? It remains so. Is the land Malay Agricultural Settlement (MAS) land? Yes, it remains so," he was quoted as saying during the launch of the Warisan Kuala Lumpur (KL) initiative at DBKL tower.

"But old flats like Sri Perlis, which are dilapidated, overcrowded, and lack fac...