KUWAIT CITY, 4 November 2006 — A Kuwaiti lawyer has said that if the Pakistani government does not produce facts surrounding the brutal killing of religious students at a madrasa in the North West Frontier Province of the country he would take the case to the International Criminal Court for investigation.

Mubarak Saaduon Al-Mutawa, general secretary for the International Islamic Committee for Human Rights, made the comments while speaking to Pakistani journalists at his chamber on Thursday evening.

Al-Mutawa said that he has sent a letter to the president of Pakistan, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, through the Pakistani Embassy in Kuwait.

“That’s the beginning of our efforts toward investigating the massacre of unarmed and poor students of an Islamic school (madrasa) in Khar Bajaur. We don’t accept the claim that they were getting militant training in the madrasa. They were human beings — Muslims — and had rights. We have been forced to react to the incident,” said Al-Mutawa.

The lawyer said the government should pay $10 million in compensation each to the families of every person killed, adding that the attack was not just on students but on the entire humanity under the pretext of terrorism. He said the evidences were as clear as daylight. Their mistake was that they were undergoing an education in the Qur’an and Sunnah.

Al-Mutawa said he did not know whether the bombers had sought formal permission from the government of Pakistan. He added that aggressive forces had occupied the country’s borders, space and land, and maintained that blood is blood whether it is shed in Lebanon or Pakistan.

He also expressed his concerns over the “meaningful silence” of the Muslim Ummah as it is unable to resist any aggression against a member state.

“We have raised our voice so that such kind of incidents do not happen in the future,” he said.

Al-Mutawa also stated that there was no harm for the government of Pakistan to apologize to the nation for what happened in Bajaur.

He said he would go to the International Criminal Court if the government failed to provide the facts to the public. The ground realities clearly indicate that there were no militants in the building but just students — aged between 10 to 20 years — learning a Qur’anic education.

“In fact, they were innocent and Allah Almighty called them en bloc while we are left behind to keep suffering from our misdeeds,” Al-Mutawa said.

He, however, added: “Pakistan is our brotherly nation and we love Pakistan. It is the shield of Muslim Ummah.”