I was there, as my father, the late Ambassador Abraham Rasul, Sr., was Prime Minister of Sultan Mahakuttah as well as Mahakuttahs’s father, the late Sultan Esmail Kiram. Will declaring Fuad a ...

Interior Secretary Mar Roxas and Sultan Bantilan Esmail Kiram II, brother of Jamalul, met behind closed doors in Roxas’ office in Camp Crame, Quezon City. It was the first official meeting ...

President Marcos continued this recognition in 1974 through Memorandum Order 427 and acknowledged Sultan Mahakuttah Kiram, son of Esmail Kiram I, with his eldest son, Muedzul Lail Tan Kiram ...

Datu Omar Ali Datu Bachtiyal, 64, says he was approached in 2008 or 2009 by Esmail Kiram II (who claimed to be the Sultan of Sulu) to join in the fight to claim Sabah from Malaysia. However ...

On Oct. 23, 1987, Secretary Manglapus wrote the late Ambassador Abraham Rasul, Wazir or Prime Minister to two Sultans — Esmail Kiram, who had ceded the sovereign claim of the Sultanate to the ...

SULTAN Jamalul Kiram III died months after the Lahad Datu siege. A younger brother, Esmail Kiram II, in a succession often beset by clan in-fighting and claims by fake descendants of the once ...

ZAMBOANGA CITY—A Malaysian court spared a relative of the late Sultan Esmail Kiram III and eight other Filipinos who were earlier sentenced to death in Sabah for the 2013 Lahad Datu attacks that ...

Salib Akhmad Emali, 63, a Filipino, being tried in the 2013 intrusion case, said Agbimuddin was always in dispute with his older brother, Esmail Kiram regarding the claim on Sabah. “I have only ...

KOTA KINABALU: The son of the late self-styled Sulu sultan Esmail Kiram was ostracised by nearly all his relatives in Semporna after his uncle led an armed intrusion into Sabah. Datu Amir Bahar ...

KOTA KINABALU: Former self-styled Sulu sultan Esmail Kiram's son said he did not know in advance about the armed intrusion of Kampung Tanduo in Lahad Datu led by his uncle Agbimuddin Kiram. Datu ...