Pakistan’s former PM Imran Khan calls off planned sit-in but demands vote

Pakistan’s defiant former prime minister Imran Khan, centre, during an anti-government rally (Anjum Naveed/AP)

Pakistan’s defiant former prime minister Imran Khan has cancelled a planned, open-ended sit-in in Islamabad – temporarily assuaging fears of protracted civil conflict after he led thousands on a march toward Parliament demanding the government’s resignation.

Mr Khan’s followers began converging on the capital on Wednesday, with some 10,000 reaching the city centre at around midnight.