While anything is possible in politics, PAS ulama council chief Ahmad Yahya said, the prospect of the party working with PH is “wishful thinking”.

He was responding to DAP women’s wing vice-chief Young Syefura Othman who said an alliance between PAS and PH should not be ruled out, citing PH’s cooperation with Barisan Nasional to form the unity government.

“PAS and DAP have worked on the same objectives together before (under Pakatan Rakyat). We may not be on the same path now but in the future, we cannot rule out any possibility,” she told FMT.

PAS cooperated with PKR and DAP under the now-defunct Pakatan Rakyat. Despite teaming up in the 13th general election in 2013, PAS pulled out of the coalition a few months after the death of its former spiritual leader, Nik Aziz Nik Mat, in February 2015.

Syefura was responding to PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang’s statement that his party remained committed to Perikatan Nasional and that it would never collaborate with PH.

Speaking to FMT, Ahmad reiterated PAS’s loyalty to PN, adding that uniting the ummah has always been part of the party’s struggles.

PAS information chief Ahmad Fadhli Shaari also mocked the notion that anything was possible in politics, saying it could also mean that the DAP could return to becoming the opposition.

He took a swipe at DAP for its stance taken before and after the last general election.

“We would never make promises to imprison certain leaders before the last general election only to work with such leaders after the nationwide polls,” he said.