Dewan Rakyat speaker Azhar Azizan Harun has again rejected calls for the Lower House to debate claims over Petronas assets by the purported heirs of the Sulu sultanate.<br /><br />In expanding his sub judice ruling, Azhar said debating the matter could reveal the government's legal strategies to the enemy.<br /><br />"Do we want as we are debating this, I don't know what will be said, the government's strategy revealed, and there are criticisms of it.<br /><br />"Then the other side can learn (our strategy). Would that not hurt the government's interest in its litigation proceedings? Do we want to show our strategy to the world?<br /><br />"The first rule of litigation is the element of surprise, the first rule of war is the same," he said in the Dewan Rakyat today.<br /><br />More: https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/628944
