Ruling while sleeping, the Pak Lah style

Dr Mahathir is in the front page of International Herald Tribune today.

Some explosive excerpts from his interview:

On his hand-picked successor - His attention span is very short and everybody tells me... that he goes to sleep, even while cases are being presented to him... He tends to let his advisors tell him what to do.

On Abdullah’s economic management - Basically he does not understand how to move the economy.

On Abdullah’s pet programme Islam Hadhari - In the first place there is no call to introduce any other kind of Islam, whether it is modern Islam or Islam Hadhari.

On Khairy Jamaluddin (Abdullah’s son-in-law) - There is clear evidence that the son in law has very big say even in the appointment of ministers, even in the choice of candidates for the election. I have been told by the very people who have experienced this that he rings up chief ministers to give certain projects to certain people, including to his mother.

Examples of Khairy’s interferences - Prawn culture in the state of Perlis and a contract I believe in the state of Negri Sembilan.

Read the full interview here and the IHT story here.