Photo of the Day: A supporter of Sufi cleric and leader of Minhaj-ul-Quran Muhammad Tahuril Qadri leans against a container blocking a road to the parliament building in Islamabad.

After four days of protests, Pakistan’s coalition government opened talks on Thursday with a Muslim cleric whose calls for the administration to resign have electrified thousands of camped out protestors.

A spokesman for the cleric, Muhammad Tahirul Qadri, said a delegation was holding discussions in a bid to defuse a political crisis that erupted after he led a convoy of buses carrying protesters into the capital on Monday. (Photo: REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra)

Photo of the Day: Supporters of Yemen’s separatist Southern Movement stand on the roof of a building during a rally of ‘reconciliation and tolerance’ in the port of Aden. The rally was held to call for the secession of the south and to mark the anniversary of a civil war that erupted in 1986 between factions of the then-ruling regime of South Yemen. (Photo: REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah)

Photo of the Day: Nepalese women participate in a candlelit rally to protest against what they say is an increase in violence against women, demanding the government to implement stronger laws and to take firm action against violence on women, in Kathmandu. 

A series of rapes and assaults were reported over the past couple of weeks from all over Nepal, according to local media. (Photo: REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar)

Photo of the Day: Women carrying placards enter Raj Ghat to attend a prayer ceremony for a rape victim after a rally organized by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit (unseen) protesting for justice and security for women, in New Delhi.

The ashes of the Indian student who died after being gang-raped were scattered in the Ganges River on Tuesday as reports of more attacks stoked a growing national debate on violence against women. The death of the 23-year-old woman, who has not been named, prompted street protests across India, international outrage and promises from the government of tougher punishments for offenders. (Photo: REUTERS/Adnan Abidi)

Photo of the Day: A Syrian refugee family sits inside the garage where they live in Bar Elias village in the Bekaa valley. (Photo: REUTERS/Jamal Saidi)

Photo of the Day: An anti-Mursi protester holds a cross and a Koran at Tahrir Square in Cairo. Egypt’s liberal and secular opposition said on Wednesday it would back a ‘no’ vote in a referendum on a divisive new constitution promoted by Islamist President Mohamed Mursi, calling off a boycott as long as safeguards are in place for a fair vote. (Photo: REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah)

Photo of the Day: Israelis sit inside a sewage pipe used as shelter during a warning of incoming rockets in the southern community of Nitzan, near Ashdod. 

A Hamas rocket killed three Israelis north of the Gaza Strip on Thursday, drawing the first blood from Israel as the Palestinian death toll rose to 15 in a military showdown lurching closer to all-out war and an invasion of the enclave. (Photo: REUTERS/Nir Elias)

Photo of the Day: A hospital worker shouts slogans during a protest outside Madrid’s Princesa hospital against the local government’s plans to cut spending on public healthcare. 

The region of Madrid will now join Catalonia by charging one-euro for prescriptions, along with other cash-saving measures that including the outsourcing of non-health-related hospital services and the health services of six recently-built clinics. (Photo: REUTERS/Susana Vera)

Photo of the Day: Afghan refugee Maiwand smokes a cigarette as he sits under an umbrella in front of Brandenburg Gate during a hunger strike in Berlin.

Some 20 refugees, mainly from Iran and Afghanistan, went on hunger strike on October 24 demanding an end to deportations, obligatory camp accommodation to be abolished and restrictions on their movements to be lifted, the refugees said.

They are part of a larger group of asylum seekers who have marched some 372 miles from the southern town of Wuerzburg to the German capital. (Photo: REUTERS/Thomas Peter)

Photo of the Day: A refugee child walks on top of a tent in a refugee camp in Atimeh, on the Syrian-Turkish border of the Idlib Governorate. (Photo: REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih)