A new audio clip featuring Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Ali Muhammad Khan has surfaced, indicating widening rifts within the leadership of the Imran Khan-founded party.

Authorities have reopened roads linking Pakistan’s capital with the rest of the country, ending a four-day lockdown, after using tear gas and firing into the air to disperse supporters of imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan who demanded his release from prison.

Pakistan's capital Islamabad was gripped by violence on Tuesday as protesters demanding the release of former Prime Minister Imran Khan clashed with security forces near the parliament.

Mr Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) said a “massacre” unfolded in Pakistan and the armed forces fired live rounds, killing “hundreds of people” and many injured with gunshot wounds. It did not give a number as to how many were killed.

Thousands of people are in the heart of Pakistan’s capital to demand the release of imprisoned former premier Imran Khan.

At least one policeman was killed and dozens of people injured in Pakistan as supporters of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan clashed with security forces outside the capital Islamabad on Monday,

Pakistan’s Information Minister Attaullah Tarar has said that there were attempts to disrupt the peace of Islamabad, and accused Murad Saeed, of Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), of orchestrating these disturbances,

Thousands of security forces poured into central Islamabad in an attempt to quell protests in support of Khan that have gripped the capital.

The interior minister issued a detailed statement regarding the protest, rejecting the PTI's assertions regarding the killings of its workers.