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.

Cleric Tahir ul-Qadri and opposition politician Imran Khan both want Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to resign.

The government has allowed protests in the capital but said they would not be permitted to march on parliament.

Unfazed by army deployment, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan and Qadri marched towards the Parliament demanding Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's resignation, putting the PML-N-led government on the backfoot.

Police baton-charged Qadri's Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) protesters as they neared the Parliament.


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