PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang has slammed Gulf states including Saudi Arabia, after a group which he is a vice-president of, was placed on a terror list.

Hadi said it was not surprising that the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) was put on Saudi, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain's terror lists, due to their growing ties with Israel.

"These are the same countries that are pursuing the neutralisation of relations with Israel and countries within the International Masonic-Zionist network.

"Such political association is akin to a ship sailing astray in the vast ocean.

"They no longer have the will to act independently and righteously amid their failure to learn from their own long history of tyranny and dark ages," he said in a statement today...