The Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) on Friday observed a countrywide black day against President General Pervez Musharraf for not shedding his military uniform and the government's decision to eliminate the religious column from the passport. MMA leaders vowed that no one would be allowed to take the country towards secularism. They warned the government of tough resistance if it did not add religion column in machine-readable passports.In Lahore, the Jamat-e-Islami, a component party of the religious alliance, staged a demonstration outside Mansoora under the leadership of Qazi Hussain Ahmad. The protestors chanted slogans against the government. They said that the government was bringing changes to the education system to please its "foreign masters". They said that they would not allow the government to secularise the education system and omit the religious column from the passport. Addressing the protestors, Qazi said the MMA would not accept the army's involvement in the presidency and politics. "We will not accept the supremacy of Army over the Constitution, parliament and democracy," he said, adding that Musharraf had become controversial both as the president and the chief of Army staff after he violated his earlier pledge to step down as the army chief by December 31, 2004. He said the MMA would launch a street-to-street anti-Musharraf campaign after Eidul Azha.