PAS today urged the Council of Rulers to intervene against the federal government decision to issue a sports betting licence. <br /> <br />While handing a protest memorandum to the keeper of the rulers' seal Engku Ibrahim Engku Ngah (middle) at his office at the Istana Negara today, PAS vice president Mahfuz Omar said such a move would be detrimental for the youths. <br /> <br />"Football clubs and their players are idolised by youth so we are afraid that this will hurt the young," he said. <br /> <br />He also said that the government's argument that government regulated sports betting operations would curb illegal betting was unreasonable.
