Pandelela has won the National Sportswoman of Year Award four times – in 2011, 2012, 2015 and 2021. She was also named the Sarawak Sports Youth Icon in 2016 and the Yakult Sports Icon in 2017.

KLANG: As a child, Zubir Khan, a boy of Pakistani-Malay parentage, had many Indian and Chinese friends in the oil palm estate in Sepang where he grew up.

“I reiterate my proposal (to make Nik Aziz a unity icon). If it wasn’t done by PN, by PAS, then let’s do it. Let’s make him an icon for national unity,” he said.