Security has been tightened in the secure zone of Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, after protest leader Imran Khan called on marchers to enter it.
The government has forbidden protesters from breaching the highly secure so-called red zone housing key state buildings and foreign embassies.
There are fears that any attempt by marchers to breach this order could lead to confrontation.
Thousands of anti-government protesters are occupying two Islamabad highways.
On Monday MPs from Imran Khan's PTI party vowed to quit their national assembly seats.
The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) party has 34 of the national assembly's 342 seats, making it the second-biggest opposition group. The lawmakers have yet to tender their formal resignations to the speaker of the national assembly.
The party said it would also resign from seats on provincial assemblies, except for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which it governs.
'First to fall'Imran Khan, the cricketer-turned-politician, has been demonstrating along with thousands of his supporters in the capital since Friday to demand the government's resignation.
He accuses Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's PML-N party of vote-rigging in the 2013 election and has called on him to stand down. Mr Sharif's party won that election by a landslide in what was Pakistan's first peaceful transfer of power between two civilian democratic governments.
The government has accused the protesters of attempting to derail democracy yet have also offered talks on their concerns, but these have been rejected.
Along with Mr Khan, anti-government cleric Tahirul Qadri mobilised supporters to march on Islamabad and they are camped out in the city.
Anger over servicesSecurity around the red zone has been massively increased, correspondents say, with more police and paramilitary troops deployed there.
One report from the Express Tribune newspaper said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif would allow protestors to enter the red zone but not the most sensitive areas. The report also said the PM had made it clear force was not to be used against the protesters.
Imran Khan has spent the night in a shipping container at the site of the sit-in but he tweeted on Tuesday that he would lead the march into the red zone, calling it a "defining moment" for Pakistan.
The protesters have said they will set off at about 17:00 local time (13:00GMT)
Supporters of Mr Khan and Mr Qadri are angry about Pakistan's poorly performing economy, growing militancy, and the government's failure to deliver services such as a steady electricity supply.
But other opposition figures have criticised the demonstrations and Mr Khan's call for people to stop paying tax bills in protest at the government.
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