The PAS also joined the Front but was expelled in 1977.

The result of this was that the PAS won a number of Malay seats from UMNO, but many Chinese voters disapproved of this unnatural alliance with the Islamist PAS, causing the DAP to lose many of its seats to the MCA, including that of its veteran leader, Lim Kit Siang.

PAS, as it became known, was intended to serve persons embarking on a second vocation but not as an alternate a seminary education.

The interval between the two periods of PAS government, when the Barisan Nasional coalition ruled the state, was only about 12 years ( 11 March 1978 to 21 October 1990 ).

Syeikh Abdullah was a well-respected religious leader and nationalist, was one of the founding members of Hizbul Muslimin, later known as PAS.

In this, it was aided by PAS, the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, which backed special rights for the Bumiputra, and the strengthening of Islam's position in public affairs.

Gerakan, PPP, PAS, and several former opposition parties in East Malaysia joined the coalition, which was renamed as the National Front ).

Eventually, the dual-membership clause in the party charter was revoked and PAS began to emerge as a distinct entity.

However, for a brief period from 1973 to 1978, under the leadership of Asri Muda, PAS was brought into the BN fold.

The big winner was PAS, which captured the states of Kelantan and Terengganu and increased its parliamentary seats from 7 to 27.

This disappointing performance was blamed mostly on its largely Chinese electorate's distrust of the alliance with PAS.

From the very beginning, the alliance had been strained by PAS's unwillingness to publicly renounce its aim of making Malaysia an Islamic state, a position that was anathema to Malaysia's 45 % non-Muslim minority, although a temporary compromise was achieved when PAS did not include the issue in the joint manifesto.

Ties between Keadilan and PAS were also strained, as was evident in PAS ' refusal to support Parti Rakyat Malaysia's bid in the Kota Bharu parliamentary seat.

The party was joined by the Democratic Action Party ( DAP ), the Malaysian People's Party ( PRM ) and the Malaysian Islamic Party ( PAS ) in a broad based electoral alliance known as Barisan Alternatif ( Alternative Front ) to take on the ruling Barisan Nasional ( National Front ) coalition in the 1999 general elections.

Nonetheless, this was soon followed by the Reformasi movement that saw the creation of a new coalition known as Barisan Alternatif (; BA ) that grouped PRM, DAP, PMIP ( known as PAS since the 1970s ) and the newly formed Parti Keadilan Nasional (; KeADILan ).

It was widely seen as the number two fixed-line operator in mainland China after China Telecom, and operated a semi-mobile PAS or xiaolingtong system.

PAS won a state assembly seat in Johor for the first time, after the National Front candidate was disqualified because she was seconded by someone who was not a registered voter in the constituency which she wanted to contest.

In the seat of Sungai Lembing ( Pahang ), the Keadilan symbol was printed wrongly on the ballot paper for PAS candidate Idris Ahmad.

Terengganu was briefly ruled by PAS from 1999 to 2004, but the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition has since won back the state.

Soon after, flow cytometry instruments were developed, including the Cytofluorograph ( 1971 ) from Bio / Physics Systems Inc. ( later: Ortho Diagnostics ), the PAS 8000 ( 1973 ) from Partec, the first FACS instrument from Becton Dickinson ( 1974 ), the ICP 22 ( 1975 ) from Partec / Phywe and the Epics from Coulter ( 1977 / 78 ).

This was due to the Islamic Party of Malaysia ( PAS ) threatening citizens in less developed parts of the country with eternal damnation if they did not vote for the PAS and that a vote for them would be rewarded by God.

The standards behind carbon labelling are now formally recognised through the PAS 2050 developed by the Carbon Trust in conjunction with BSI and Defra.

A PAS is a sponsored piece of work allowing organizations flexibility in the rapid creation of a standard while also allowing for a greater degree of control over the document's development.

A typical development time frame for a PAS is around 6 – 9 months.

Once published by BSI a PAS has all the functionality of a British Standard for the purposes of creating schemes such as management systems and product benchmarks as well as codes of practice.

* PAS 55-1: Asset management-Specification for the optimized management of physical infrastructure assests

* PAS 72: Responsible Fishing-Specification of good practice for fishing vessels

* PAS 911: Fire strategies-guidance and framework for their formulation

* BSI PAS 101 Specification for recovered container glass

* BSI PAS 102 Specification for processed glass for selected secondary end markets

* BSI PAS 103 Specification for quality and guidance for good practice in collection and preparation for recycling

* BSI PAS 104 Specification for quality and guidance for good practice for the supply of post consumer wood for consumption in the manufacture of panel board products

* BSI PAS 105 Specification for paper waste

The aircraft is operated by Trinity House and liveried for Trinity House, but is owned by Police Aviation Services ( PAS ) and operated under lease.

* ISO / PAS 22399: 2007 Guideline for incident preparedness and operational continuity management

Besides sports, this stadium had been used for several occasions such as the final concert of Akademi Fantasia and the Perhimpunan Pekerja 2008 held by the Dewan Pemuda PAS.

PAS, which had in the 1970s joined UMNO in government, responded to the resurgence by taking an increasingly strident Islamist stand under the leadership of the man who in 1969 had defeated Mahathir for his parliamentary seat, Yusof Rawa.

The state of Kelantan is almost synonymous with PAS, as Kelantan has been under PAS rule for two lengthy periods.

( Neighbouring Terengganu has also been under PAS rule twice, but for short periods each time and 1999 – 2004.

In the 2004 general election, Abdullah Badawi's first as prime minister, he delivered a landslide victory for his party's coalition National Front ( of which UMNO is the dominant party ) by winning 198 out of 220 seats in parliament and wresting control of the Terengganu state government from the Islamist opposition Islamic Party of Malaysia ( PAS ), as well as coming close to capturing the traditional PAS stronghold of Kelantan.

Nik Aziz has been known to command support from non-Muslims in Malaysia and has played a leading role during PAS ' increase in popularity among non-Muslims.

Gardner himself emphasized that PAS only applied in situations where there was no actual abuse or neglect had not occurred, but by 1998, noted an increase in the awareness of PAS had led to an increase in its misapplication as an exculpatory legal maneuver.

If PAS and euthanasia were legalized, more staff would have time to care for others and there would be an increase in the quality of care administered.