KUALA LUMPUR: Umno president Datuk Seri Najib Razak today showed a page from the Sunday Times dated Sept 1, 1957 to remind delegates to look to the past with gratitude and to the future with confidence.
The article, written on Aug 31, 1957 and published the following day had quoted the first PM Tunku Abdul Rahman on that.
The newspaper was a reprint and being sold at the New Straits Times Press booth at the Putra World Trade Centre for RM5 per copy.
Najib also said a taskforce will be created to come up with a 'Syariah Index' to evaluate whether the country has been administered based on the true tenets of Islam.