National Chief Scout dies
KUALA LUMPUR: National Chief Scout Tan Sri Shafie Mohd Salleh died yesterday. He was 73.
Shafie died at 9.30 am due to abdominal complications at the Selayang Hospital, said National Scout assistant chief commissioner Ahmad Sabri Saad.
Shafie, who was a former minister of higher education, leaves behind wife Puan Sri Prof Emeritus Dr Mizan Adilah Ibrahim and three children.
Ahmad Sabri told Bernama Shafie will be buried in Kampung Ginching, Salak Tinggi, Sepang after the Zuhur prayers.
Shafie had also served as the head of the research centre at the National Institute of Public Administration (INTAN) for five years.
He had also served as an undersecretary in the Human Resource Ministry and as secretary of research in the Policy Analysis Section of the Malaysian Centre for Development Studies in the Prime Minister's Department.
Meanwhile, the South Asian Association of National Scout Organisations (SAANSO) has expressed sadness over the death of Shafie.
SAANSO secretary-general Abdullah Rasheed conveyed the association's condolences to Shafie's family and to the members of the Scouts Association of Malaysia and hoped that they would overcome their grief and move forward.
"We all remember him as a humble and dedicated scout leader who has served long for the development of scouting in Malaysia. He had a passion and a love for scouting.
"He had also done much for world scouting and in achieving the successful transfer of the World Scout Bureau from Geneva to Kuala Lumpur and has wholeheartedly fought and accomplished in seeking much of the Malaysian government support for this transfer with very generous contributions," he said. – Bernama