KUCHING, Jan. 22 -- Sarawak PKR Women's wing today asked if calls by male members of the party for the sacking of vice- president Zuraida Kamaruddin are meant to silence the voice of a woman who dares to speak the truth.

"We, the PKR Women in Sarawak, take offence to the calls of her resignation, and that the message here is clear that certain bad elements are out to silence the woman in the room because she dares to speak the truth," its chief Nurhanim Mokhsen said.

"Is it just some small-minded men who cannot swallow the truth from a woman?"

"After all, why else should Kak Zu (Zuraida) be singled out to be hauled up to a disciplinary hearing?" she asked in a statement, adding that Zuraida was basically echoing party president Datuk S...