Jeff Ooi reports that the Malaysian Islamic opposition party PAS may be changing.

It has at its leadership convention picked three vice-presidents who are not ulama (Muslim religious scholars):

This means all three vice presidents are elected from the rank of non-ulama, while four new faces have been voted into the central working committee, namely Mujahid, Amiruddin, Dr Mahfuz and Dr Rosli.

He is also impressed that the Pas president (who is still ulama) uses a touchpad and not a mouse.

Furthermore, the PAS has given up wearing Taliban-style clothing (which may put them a little behind most of Afghanistan in terms of fashion trends, but is still welcome).:

They have all discarded their Afghanistani jubah and replaced it with full suit of baju Melayu minus the songkok. They, however, retained the unmistakable white skull-caps.