Kuala Lampur, Feb. 23 -- Datuk Zaid Ibrahim has suggested the government replace Attorney General (AG) Tan Sri Thomas after a minister criticised the former's call to drop the prosecution of 12 Malaysians charged with supporting the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

The former de facto law minister took to Twitter last night to lambast Home Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin's public rebuke of Thomas, questioning how a minister could doubt the AG's competency.

"What kind of ministers do we have?" Zaid wrote late last night.

"You don't give a benefit of a doubt to your AG; only to an accused person. To your AG there cannot be any doubt as to his competency and judgement. If you do, then you have to replace him."

In his exhaustive...