KUALA LUMPUR, March 1 -- Selangor PAS chief Datuk Ab. Halim Tamuri has confirmed receiving the Selangor Sultan's letter that rebuked his party's president, Tan Sri Abdul Hadi Awang, over recent claims about the position of Islam in Malaysia.

Local daily New Straits Times reported him, however, as declining comment.

"No comment, I cannot comment, thank you," he was quoted telling the media outside of the Selangor state assembly yesterday.

Yesterday, the Selangor Royal Office in an online statement said state ruler Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah had sent a letter to Hadi through Ab. Halim.

In the letter dated February 27 sent via the state ruler's private secretary Datuk Muhamad Munir Bani and which was also released online by the Selang...