Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob has been very friendly with civil servants and rewarded them accordingly, unlike the confrontational approach taken by the Pakatan Harapan administration where officers were threatened with termination and scapegoated when things went wrong. 

This is according to Ismail Sabri's special aide, Kamarul Zaman Yusoff, in a column published in Utusan Malaysia today. 

He said Harapan had failed to...