Scuffles have occurred between police and a crowd of tens of thousands of protesters who converged on the Pakistani parliament as part of a "long march" overnight<br /><br />The protesters are followers of Canadian-Pakistani cleric Tahir-ul Qadri, who led a two-day <br />protest march into the capital Islamabad overnight to demand a peaceful "revolution" and the <br />dissolution of parliament.<br /><br />It was not clear who fired the gunshots. An AFP reporter saw police fire tear gas shells at the <br />crowd. Protesters were brandishing sticks and had pelted stones at police around 500 metres from <br />parliament. The AFP reporter said protesters smashed vehicle windows.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Kamal Hyder reports from Islamabad.
