Thousands of anti- government protesters, ecouraged by a last-minute court verdict allowing peaceful demonstrations, began their march today from Lahore to Islamabad as the fear of violence gripped Pakistan's capital which has been turned into a fortress.
On a day the country marks its Independence Day, the two groups, led by cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan and Canada-based cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri, plan to converge on Islamabad to press Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to call an early election little over a year after his landslide victory in the polls.
