Punjab Police on Monday fired tear gas to scatter hundreds of anti-government protesters heading for Islamabad, after a court cleared the way for Imran Khan to hold a mass protest this week.
The crowd approaching roadblocks amid clouds of tear gas as night fell near the town of Swabi, on a highway linking the capital to the northwestern city of Peshawar.
Police had set up roadblocks on major roads on Monday morning, particularly those from Khan’s political heartland of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, ruled by his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party.