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<\/a>Ustaz Fathan, 42, who is also deputy head and a lecturer at the Muslim Welfare Organisation of Malaysia\u2019s (Perkim) Institut Dakwah Islamiah, here, has a master\u2019s degree in Syariah from Universiti Malaya.<\/p>\nThe Kampung Baung, Pengkalan Chepa-born had studied in Damascus, Syria in Talaqqi Kitab and Mustami\u2019 from 1997 to 1999 and at Al-Azhar University, Egypt (Bachelor\u2019s degree in Syariah) from 1993 to 1997.<\/p>\n
Also present at the announcement of the PAS candidate for the by-election were Kelantan PAS commissioner and Menteri Besar Datuk Ahmad Yakob, deputy commissioner I and Deputy Menteri Besar Datuk Ustaz Mohd Amar Nik Abdullah, Kelantan PAS election machinery and operations co-director Datuk Takiyuddin Hassan and state Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) chairman, Abdul Aziz Abdul Kadir.<\/p>\n
Fathan was among three candidates shortlisted by Kelantan PAS after the nomination process conducted by the party last week.<\/p>\n
One of the other two candidates was said to be syariah lawyer Nik Baharom Nik Abdullah, who is also a member of the Kelantan Hudud Technical Committee, while the other shortlisted candidate was not revealed.<\/p>\n
The Chempaka by-election will be held following the death of its incumbent assemblyman and former Kelantan menteri besar Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat from prostate cancer on Feb 12.<\/p>\n
In the 13th general election, the 84-year-old PAS spiritual leader defeated Barisan Nasional candidate Wan Razman Wan Abdul Razak with a 6,500-vote majoriy.<\/p>\n
The Election Commission has fixed March 22 for polling and March 10 for the nomination of candidates. \u2014 Bernama<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PAS last night announced its Pengkalan Chepa Ulama Affairs Management secretary Ustaz Ahmad Fathan Mahmood @ Mahamad as its candidate for the Chempaka state seat by-election on March 22. The announcement was made by PAS vice-president Datuk Ustaz Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man before 500 party supporters at the Kelantan Islamic Tarbiah Centre (Putik), here. Ustaz […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"better_featured_image":{"id":31132,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1024,"height":682,"file":"2015\/03\/IMG-20150309-WA0003.jpg","filesize":62729,"sizes":{},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":31131,"source_url":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG-20150309-WA0003.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}