ISLAMABAD, April 27: The attitude of remaining silent over violations of human rights is a primitive crime and the options to abstain from it are either to react within the possible limitations or to get aside from that situation if one is not in a position to react vigorously. This basic teaching of Islam has given birth to the concept of refugees.

This was stated by Dr Aslam Khaki, jurist consultant Federal Shariat Court, while speaking on Refugee rights in Islam at a seminar arranged by Society For Human Rights and Prisoners Aid (Sharp).

The speaker said a basic concept that the modern civilizations had forgotten was that religion is the movement meant for the restoration of human rights and no religion supported discrimination or violation of human rights.

In this context, a refugee is the most vulnerable person who has fled his geographical roots in response to the injustices done to him, and here the role of the international community as a protector emerges, he added.

For the protection of the legal rights of a refugee, international conventions have been devised and the underlying phenomenon remains that a refugee, being a human being, still has his entire fundamental human rights intact, secure and guaranteed and the rights further granted to him as being a refugee are an addition.