Ismail Sabri withdraws defamation suit against Agenda Daily

Former prime minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob today withdrew his lawsuit against the owner of Agenda Daily Media Enterprise over an allegedly defamatory article published two years ago.

Ismail Sabri’s lawyer, K Ragunath, informed High Court judge Aliza Sulaiman that his client agreed to withdraw the defamation suit with no order as to costs and no liberty to file it again.

Asiah Abd Jalil, the lawyer representing...