KARACHI, March 11: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) on Friday claimed that its million march, scheduled for March 20 in Karachi, will prove to be a referendum against government policies of secularization, increase in prices, unemployment and exclusion of the religion column from the passport.

?The MMA?s million march will prove a voice of the masses against the policies of the pro-US Pakistani government,? central leader of the MMA and Naib-Amir Jamaat-i-Islami Senator Prof Ghafoor Ahmed told demonstrators at a mass contact campaign held at Banaras Chowk.

Participants were holding banners and placards inscribed with slogans against price hike, poverty, obscenity, secularization, deletion of religion column from passport, contempt of Islamic symbols and teachings.

Prof Ghafoor said the US wanted to target the country?s nuclear installations by giving a false impression that the country?s nuclear programme was not in safe hands, while on other hand, nothing was being said against the nuclear programmes of India and Israel.

He maintained that the US and the western countries were also raising objections about the ideological identity and Islamic articles in the Constitution of Pakistan and were demanding their elimination.

Prof Ghafoor alleged that the government was patronizing obscenity and vulgarity in the country, and was giving liberty to TV channels to telecast programmes against Islamic teachings.

Other MMA leaders Dr Merajul Huda Siddiqui, Maulana Abdul Karim Abid, Allama Hasan Turabi, Hafiz Mohammad Taqi, MPAs Maulana Mohammad Omer Sadiq, Hameedullah Khan and others also spoke. ? PPI