巴基斯坦軍隊對反政府示威者使用催淚彈

Pakistani security forces have fired into the air and lobbed tear gas in Islamabad, where protesters are holding an early morning march and calling on the country's political leaders to resign and dissolve the government.

The demonstrators gathered on one of the city's main thoroughfares for an anti-corruption protest. They were acting at the urging of populist Pakistani cleric Tahir-ul Qadri. He told the tens of thousands of people at the protest to march on parliament.

Qadri's supporters pushed aside barriers of barbed wire and shipping containers that police had erected to contain the crowd.

Qadri said he would speak to his supporters around mid-day outside parliament to press his demand for the government's abdication.

Pakistan is due to hold parliamentary elections in mid-May, and parliament would be dissolved about two months beforehand. But Qadri said the government should step down immediately, to clear the way for an interim Cabinet to root out graft and mismanagement, which he blames for chronic energy shortages, slow economic growth and a rise in crime and Taliban insurgency.在巴基斯坦首都伊斯蘭堡，安全部隊向空中放槍，並向示威者施放催淚彈。星期二清早，示威者發動遊行，要求巴基斯坦政治領導人辭職和解散政府。

示威者聚集在伊斯蘭堡的主要街道，舉行反腐敗抗議活動。他們響應深受民衆愛戴的巴基斯坦神職人員卡德里的號召。卡德里呼籲數十萬抗議者到議會遊行示威。

卡德里的支持者推開警察爲阻擋人羣而放置的鐵絲網和貨箱，向議會大廈進發。

卡德里說，他星期二中午將在議會大廈外面向支持者發表講話，並要求政府下臺。

巴基斯坦定於5月中旬舉行議會選舉，並將在此之前大約兩個月解散議會。但卡德里說，政府應當立即下臺，以便成立一個臨時內閣，清除貪腐和管理不善，他認爲這些因素導致了長期能源短缺、經濟發展緩慢、犯罪率上升以及塔利班叛亂。