BUKIT MERTAJAM: Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) adviser Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is refusing to swear on the Quran despite calls to clear his name.

He cited the same reason that he had been advised by ulama not to do so and to refer the sodomy charge against him to the syariah court.

"I insist on following the syariah law and court," he said after visiting the Wanita PKR operations room at Sungai Semambu near here yesterday.

He was reacting to the swearing by Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak on Friday that he did not know nor had any relationship with Mongolian woman Altantuya Shaariibuu, who was murdered in 2006.

In his Permatang Pauh by-election campaign, Anwar had alleged that Najib had a relationship with the Altantuya.
Anwar's former aide, Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan, 23, had accused his former boss of sodomising him and had sworn on the Quran regarding the sodomy at the Federal Territory Mosque on Aug 15.

Anwar had referred Saiful's allegation against him to the Kuala Lumpur Syariah Court last month. -- Bernama