Superficial! - Fuziah lambasts govt for gender discrimination on citizenship rights

PKR Women chief Fuziah Salleh launched a salvo at the Perikatan Nasional (PN) government after a deputy minister said there were national security concerns over the dual-citizenship issue among children born abroad to Malaysian women with foreign husbands.

Deputy Home Minister Ismail Mohamed Said told the Dewan Rakyat recently that this was because most countries have a similar policy where a child born abroad will follow the nationality of their father, and so the government must be "diligent" to avoid the issue of dual-citizenship...