Zaliha said the meeting minutes of the board will not be disclosed.

“The meeting minutes are confidential and therefore we cannot make them public,” she told reporters after an event at the Alamanda Shopping Centre here.

Zaliha also said only members of FTPB have the right to access the meeting minutes.

As the federal territories minister, Zaliha is a member of FTPB, chaired by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong. The former health minister was shifted to the federal territories portfolio in December 2023.

Yesterday, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s senior political secretary, Shamsul Iskandar Akin, urged the government to publicise the minutes of the FTPB meeting on Jan 29 last year, where it decided to halve Najib’s jail sentence.

Shamsul said this would end speculation over the full extent of the pardon granted to the former prime minister and clarify the circumstances under which the house arrest addendum was issued by the 16th Agong.

Najib obtained leave on Monday to begin judicial review proceedings to compel the government to place him under house arrest in accordance with Al-Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah’s decree.

In a letter submitted to the court by Najib’s lawyer Shafee Abdullah, the comptroller of the Pahang royal household confirmed the existence of the addendum order in which the decree was set out.

The revelation resulted in several quarters accusing the government of hiding the addendum order and calling for the party responsible to be brought to justice.