ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Riot police sealed off Pakistan's capital with barbed wire and shipping containers on the eve of Independence Day, in a bid to foil mass protests aimed at toppling embattled Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
Two groups, led by cricket star-turned-opposition politician Imran Khan and cleric Tahir ul-Qadri, plan to converge on Islamabad on Thursday to press Sharif to call an early election little over a year after his landslide victory at the polls.
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