Pakistan protesters reach parliament in bid to force PM to resign


  • World
  • Wednesday, 20 Aug 2014

Mohammad Tahir ul-Qadri (C), Sufi cleric and leader of political party Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT), gestures while addressing his supporters during the Revolution March in Islamabad August 18, 2014. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan protesters reached the Islamabad parliament building in the early hours of Wednesday morning in their bid to force the prime minister to resign, but did not immediately go inside.

Reuters journalists saw protesters on their way to parliament wearing hard hats and tough leather gloves using cranes and bolt cutters to move aside barricades of shipping containers and barbed wire.

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