Description : Kashmiri Pandits, make a religious sign with earthen lamps during an annual Hindu festival at a shrine in Khirbhawani, 30 km (19 miles) east of Srinagar, India. Thousands of displaced Kashmiri Hindus, known as Pandits in Kashmir, gathered at a holy shrine in the restive Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday to pray for peace and early return home. More than 200,000 Hindus fled their homes when an armed rebellion broke out in the Himalayan region at the end of 1989 after militancy started in Kashmir.