Here’s a VICE video on the genesis of this protest movement in Pakistan.
Via Fox News:
At least one person has died and hundreds of others have been injured as police in Pakistan clashed with protesters who attempted to march on the prime minister’s residence in Islamabad Saturday evening.
Senior hospital official Dr. Wasim Khawaja told the Associated Press Sunday that protester Naveed Razzaq drowned in a ditch after he was in a crowd that was bombarded with tear gas. More than 300 people were wounded in the clashes, medical officials said, as police battled protesters with tear gas, batons and rubber bullets near the premier’s official residence and the adjacent parliament building.
The violence has raised the stakes in a political standoff, in which cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan and cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri have led twin protests demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, alleging massive voting fraud in the election that brought him into office last year in the country’s first democratic transfer of power.
Backed by parliament and many political parties, Sharif has refused to step down. Government negotiators have tried to convince Qadri and Khan to end their protests.