26-11-2022, 09:23 PM
A firebrand youth leader, Anwar founded a youth movement before he was recruited into the then-ruling United Malays National Organization (UMNO).
He enjoyed a meteoric rise to become deputy prime minister-cum-finance minister in the 1990s.
He was groomed to take over from then-Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad but a bitter fallout over Malaysia’s response to the Asian economic crisis saw Anwar sacked in September 1998 and later jailed for six years.
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He enjoyed a meteoric rise to become deputy prime minister-cum-finance minister in the 1990s.
He was groomed to take over from then-Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad but a bitter fallout over Malaysia’s response to the Asian economic crisis saw Anwar sacked in September 1998 and later jailed for six years.
https://www.trtworld.com/asia/from-priso...-top-62845