Source: trak.in
SRINAGAR, INDIA, October 17, 2009: As people across the country were overwhelmed with the celebration of Diwali, a number of Kashmiri Pandits or Hindus offered prayers for the return of their fellow community members who have been displaced from their homeland on Diwali eve.
Theses Kashmiri Pandit families, as they are called in India administered Kashmir, illuminated their houses and offered prayers at a Ganaptiyar temple on Friday.
Every heart in the neighborhood prayed for the return of their fellow community members, who had been forced to seek shelter in different parts of the country as displaced persons after the militants unleashed terror in the region. Tens of thousands of Kashmiri Hindus had to flee from Jammu and Kashmir after militancy broke out in the valley 1989.