(Updated) Apologise directly to Hadi and Pandikar, PAS tells Nanyang

PETALING JAYA: PAS and several Muslim NGOs want Nanyang Siang Pau to apologise directly to Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang and Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia for a caricature it published deemed insulting to the two leaders.
PAS Youth information chief Ahmad Fadli Shaari said this after handing over a memorandum to the Chinese daily's top management at the latter's headquarters here.
"They (Nanyang) have expressed their utmost regret over the caricature, and their apology has been published in most newspapers.
"However, we have several demands that we have conveyed to them, including for them to send a formal letter of apology to PAS President Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi and Dewan Rakyat Speaker Pandikar," he said during a protest in front of the daily's office, here today.
Some 200 demonstrators had gathered there as a sign of protest over the caricature published on April 8, which featured two monkeys sitting on a tree, one wearing a songkok labelled as "speaker", the other donning a turban labelled "Hadi Awang", while other monkeys fought under it.
The cartoon was published in the newspaper two days after Abdul Hadi tabled his Private Member's Bill to amend the Syariah Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) Act 355 on April 6.
Ahmad Fadli said they (PAS and Muslim NGOs reps) have also demanded that Nanyang publish the memorandum in its newspaper as an acknowledgment of yesterday's meeting.
"We also demanded that they never touch on the sensitivities of other religions again. We may accept their apology now, but not if they repeat it. We can forgive, but we can never forget," he said.
Earlier, several speakers at the protest had urged the Home Ministry to either suspend or revoke Nanyang's publishing license over the matter, while others shouted "tutup Nanyang" (shut down Nanyang).
Ahmad Fadli, however, clarified that those were merely individual opinions and do not represent the group's official stand.