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It said that his crackdown on corruption has put out of action not only Sharif and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, the leaders of the country's two main political movements, but also "almost the entire Pakistani upper crust."
Another WP front-pager reports that China has arrested over 4,000 Beijing residents in its efforts to suppress the Falun Gong sect, making this the largest government crackdown since the days of the Tiananmen Square uprising.
A further Post article suggested that ultimately, the joke was on the GOP: Its crackdown on legal immigrants is scaring them into becoming American citizens, and they're overwhelmingly registering to vote as Democrats.
By the late 1980s, the Egyptian Islamist movement-badly battered in the government crackdown following President Sadat's assassination-was centered in two major organizations: the Islamic Group and the Egyptian Islamic Jihad.
Now Brown boasts of his crackdown on crime, and says: "I don't talk about sustainable development.