Musicians from the Afghan Youth Orchestra are directed by conductor William Harvey (R) as they perform at Carnegie Hall in New York, February 12, 2013. REUTERS/Keith Bedford (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT SOCIETY) 

A girl smiles after playing the sitar during a performance by members of the Young Afghan Traditional Ensemble at the State Department in Washington, February 4, 2013. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) 

Family members address the crowd during memorial services for sitar legend Ravi Shankar in Encinitas, California December 20, 2012. Shankar died December 11 at the age of 92. REUTERS/Sam Hodgson (UNITED STATES - Tags: OBITUARY ENTERTAINMENT) 

Daughters Norah Jones (L), Anoushka Shankar and wife Sukanya Rajan leave memorial services for sitar legend Ravi Shankar in Encinitas, California December 20, 2012. Shankar died December 11 at the age of 92. REUTERS/Sam Hodgson (UNITED STATES - Tags: OBITUARY ENTERTAINMENT) 

Daughters Norah Jones (L), Anoushka Shankar and wife Sukanya Rajan leave memorial services for sitar legend Ravi Shankar in Encinitas, California December 20, 2012. Shankar died December 11 at the age of 92. REUTERS/Sam Hodgson (UNITED STATES - Tags: OBITUARY ENTERTAINMENT) 

Daughters Norah Jones (L), Anoushka Shankar and wife Sukanya Rajan leave memorial services for sitar legend Ravi Shankar in Encinitas, California December 20, 2012. Shankar died December 11 at the age of 92. REUTERS/Sam Hodgson (UNITED STATES - Tags: OBITUARY ENTERTAINMENT) 

Son-in-law Joe Wright speaks at memorial services for sitar legend Ravi Shankar in Encinitas, California December 20, 2012. Shankar died December 11 at the age of 92. REUTERS/Sam Hodgson (UNITED STATES - Tags: OBITUARY ENTERTAINMENT) 

Family members address the crowd during memorial services for sitar legend Ravi Shankar in Encinitas, California December 20, 2012. Shankar died December 11 at the age of 92. REUTERS/Sam Hodgson (UNITED STATES - Tags: OBITUARY ENTERTAINMENT) 

Zubin Mehta speaks at memorial services for sitar legend Ravi Shankar in Encinitas, California December 20, 2012. Shankar died December 11 at the age of 92. REUTERS/Sam Hodgson (UNITED STATES - Tags: OBITUARY ENTERTAINMENT) 

Daughter Anoushka Shankar speaks at memorial services for sitar legend Ravi Shankar in Encinitas, California December 20, 2012. Shankar died December 11 at the age of 92. REUTERS/Sam Hodgson (UNITED STATES - Tags: OBITUARY ENTERTAINMENT) 

Son-in-law Joe Wright speaks at memorial services for sitar legend Ravi Shankar in Encinitas, California December 20, 2012. Shankar died December 11 at the age of 92. REUTERS/Sam Hodgson (UNITED STATES - Tags: OBITUARY ENTERTAINMENT) 

Daughter Anoushka Shankar speaks at memorial services for sitar legend Ravi Shankar in Encinitas, California December 20, 2012. Shankar died December 11 at the age of 92. REUTERS/Sam Hodgson (UNITED STATES - Tags: OBITUARY ENTERTAINMENT) 

Daughter Anoushka Shankar speaks at memorial services for sitar legend Ravi Shankar in Encinitas, California December 20, 2012. Shankar died December 11 at the age of 92. REUTERS/Sam Hodgson (UNITED STATES - Tags: OBITUARY ENTERTAINMENT) 

Olivia Harrison, widow of George Harrison, speaks at memorial services for sitar legend Ravi Shankar in Encinitas, California December 20, 2012. Shankar died December 11 at the age of 92. REUTERS/Sam Hodgson (UNITED STATES - Tags: OBITUARY ENTERTAINMENT) 

Olivia Harrison (R), widow of George Harrison, arrives at memorial services for sitar legend Ravi Shankar in Encinitas, California December 20, 2012. Shankar died December 11 at the age of 92. REUTERS/Sam Hodgson (UNITED STATES - Tags: OBITUARY ENTERTAINMENT) 

Sukanya Rajan (L) arrives at memorial services for her husband, sitar legend Ravi Shankar in Encinitas, California December 20, 2012. Shankar died December 11 at the age of 92. REUTERS/Sam Hodgson (UNITED STATES - Tags: OBITUARY ENTERTAINMENT) 

Sukanya Rajan (L) arrives at memorial services for her husband, sitar legend Ravi Shankar in Encinitas, California December 20, 2012. Shankar died December 11 at the age of 92. REUTERS/Sam Hodgson (UNITED STATES - Tags: OBITUARY ENTERTAINMENT) 

Daughter Anoushka Shankar, her husband Joe Wright and their son Zubin arrive at memorial services for sitar legend Ravi Shankar in Encinitas, California December 20, 2012. Shankar died December 11 at the age of 92. REUTERS/Sam Hodgson (UNITED STATES - Tags: OBITUARY ENTERTAINMENT) 

Sukanya Rajan (R) arrives at memorial services for her husband, sitar legend Ravi Shankar in Encinitas, California December 20, 2012. Shankar died December 11 at the age of 92. REUTERS/Sam Hodgson (UNITED STATES - Tags: OBITUARY ENTERTAINMENT) 

Hundreds of mourners gathered at memorial services for sitar legend Ravi Shankar in Encinitas, California December 20, 2012. Shankar died December 11 at the age of 92. REUTERS/Sam Hodgson (UNITED STATES - Tags: OBITUARY ENTERTAINMENT) 

Volunteers with the Sri Chinmoy Centre distribute flowers to guests before memorial services for sitar legend Ravi Shankar in Encinitas, California December 20, 2012. Shankar died December 11 at the age of 92. REUTERS/Sam Hodgson (UNITED STATES - Tags: OBITUARY ENTERTAINMENT) 

Volunteers with the Sri Chinmoy Centre distribute flowers to guests before memorial services for sitar legend Ravi Shankar in Encinitas, California December 20, 2012. Shankar died December 11 at the age of 92. REUTERS/Sam Hodgson (UNITED STATES - Tags: OBITUARY ENTERTAINMENT) 

Volunteers with the Sri Chinmoy Centre distribute flowers to guests before memorial services for sitar legend Ravi Shankar in Encinitas, California December 20, 2012. Shankar died December 11 at the age of 92. REUTERS/Sam Hodgson (UNITED STATES - Tags: OBITUARY ENTERTAINMENT) 

Zubin Mehta (R) arrives at memorial services for sitar legend Ravi Shankar in Encinitas, California December 20, 2012. Shankar died December 11 at the age of 92. REUTERS/Sam Hodgson (UNITED STATES - Tags: OBITUARY ENTERTAINMENT) 

A guest carries a flower and program during memorial services for sitar legend Ravi Shankar in Encinitas, California December 20, 2012. Shankar died December 11 at the age of 92. REUTERS/Sam Hodgson (UNITED STATES - Tags: OBITUARY ENTERTAINMENT) 

Volunteers with the Sri Chinmoy Centre distribute flowers to guests before memorial services for sitar legend Ravi Shankar in Encinitas, California December 20, 2012. Shankar died December 11 at the age of 92. REUTERS/Sam Hodgson (UNITED STATES - Tags: OBITUARY ENTERTAINMENT) 

Volunteers with the Sri Chinmoy Centre distribute flowers to guests before memorial services for sitar legend Ravi Shankar in Encinitas, California December 20, 2012. Shankar died December 11 at the age of 92. REUTERS/Sam Hodgson (UNITED STATES - Tags: OBITUARY ENTERTAINMENT) 

Volunteers with the Sri Chinmoy Centre distribute flowers to guests before memorial services for sitar legend Ravi Shankar in Encinitas, California December 20, 2012. Shankar died December 11 at the age of 92. REUTERS/Sam Hodgson (UNITED STATES - Tags: OBITUARY ENTERTAINMENT) 

Guests arrive at the home of sitar master Ravi Shankar in Encinitas, California December 12, 2012. Shankar, who helped introduce the sitar to the Western world through his collaborations with The Beatles, died in Southern California on Tuesday, his family said. He was 92. REUTERS/Sam Hodgson (UNITED STATES - Tags: OBITUARY) 

An outside view of the home of sitar master Ravi Shankar in Encinitas, California December 12, 2012. Shankar, who helped introduce the sitar to the Western world through his collaborations with The Beatles, died in Southern California on Tuesday, his family said. He was 92. REUTERS/Sam Hodgson (UNITED STATES - Tags: OBITUARY) 

An outside view of the home of sitar master Ravi Shankar in Encinitas, California December 12, 2012. Shankar, who helped introduce the sitar to the Western world through his collaborations with The Beatles, died in Southern California on Tuesday, his family said. He was 92. REUTERS/Sam Hodgson (UNITED STATES - Tags: OBITUARY) 

Doctor Nasim Atiq checks the blood pressure of a patient suffering from mental illness at the dispensary section of the Edhi Home, a shelter for homeless and mentally ill women provided by Edhi foundation, in Karachi November 15, 2012. The Edhi Foundation, a non-profit social welfare programme in Pakistan founded by Abdul Sitar Edhi in 1951, opened the Edhi Home to house women in distress in 1986. Picture taken November 15, 2012. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY) 

A girl, who is an abandoned child, writes on a blackboard while attending a class at the Edhi Home, a shelter for homeless and mentally ill women provided by Edhi foundation, in Karachi November 15, 2012. The Edhi Foundation, a non-profit social welfare programme in Pakistan founded by Abdul Sitar Edhi in 1951, opened the Edhi Home to house women in distress in 1986. The board reads, "The Torat was revealed to the Prophet Moses and The Zabur revealed to Dawud (David)." Picture taken November 15, 2012. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY) 

Kiran, an abandoned child, kicks a soccer ball while playing in the halls of the Edhi Home, a shelter for homeless and mentally ill women provided by Edhi foundation, in Karachi November 15, 2012. The Edhi Foundation, a non-profit social welfare programme in Pakistan founded by Abdul Sitar Edhi in 1951, opened the Edhi Home to house women in distress in 1986. Picture taken November 15, 2012. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY) 

Girls, who are abandoned children, attend a class at the Edhi Home, a shelter for homeless and mentally ill women provided by Edhi foundation, in Karachi November 15, 2012. The Edhi Foundation, a non-profit social welfare programme in Pakistan founded by Abdul Sitar Edhi in 1951, opened the Edhi Home to house women in distress in 1986. The board reads, "The Torat was revealed to the Prophet Moses and The Zabur revealed to Dawud (David)." Picture taken November 15, 2012. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY) 

Girls, who are abandoned children, learn Arabic in order to read the Koran at the Edhi Home, a shelter for homeless and mentally ill women provided by Edhi foundation, in Karachi November 15, 2012. The Edhi Foundation, a non-profit social welfare programme in Pakistan founded by Abdul Sitar Edhi in 1951, opened the Edhi Home to house women in distress in 1986. Picture taken November 15, 2012. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

A woman suffering from mental illness cries as she stands behind bars of a door at the Edhi Home, a shelter for homeless and mentally ill women provided by Edhi foundation, in Karachi November 15, 2012. The Edhi Foundation, a non-profit social welfare programme in Pakistan founded by Abdul Sitar Edhi in 1951, opened the Edhi Home to house women in distress in 1986. Picture taken November 15, 2012. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

A woman suffering from mental illness cries as she stands behind bars of a door at the Edhi Home, a shelter for homeless and mentally ill women provided by Edhi foundation, in Karachi November 15, 2012. The Edhi Foundation, a non-profit social welfare programme in Pakistan founded by Abdul Sitar Edhi in 1951, opened the Edhi Home to house women in distress in 1986. Picture taken November 15, 2012. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY) 

A girl who is an abandoned child sits in a ward at the Edhi Home, a shelter for homeless and mentally ill women provided by Edhi foundation, in Karachi November 15, 2012. The Edhi Foundation, a non-profit social welfare programme in Pakistan founded by Abdul Sitar Edhi in 1951, opened the Edhi Home to house women in distress in 1986. Picture taken November 15, 2012. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

Habiba (R), a divorced woman, sits with other women during lunch hours at the Edhi Home, a shelter for homeless and mentally ill women provided by Edhi foundation, in Karachi November 15, 2012. The Edhi Foundation, a non-profit social welfare programme in Pakistan founded by Abdul Sitar Edhi in 1951, opened the Edhi Home to house women in distress in 1986. Picture taken November 15, 2012. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY) 

Women pull a tub of boiled rice through the halls at the Edhi Home, a shelter for homeless and mentally ill women provided by Edhi foundation, in Karachi November 15, 2012. The Edhi Foundation, a non-profit social welfare programme in Pakistan founded by Abdul Sitar Edhi in 1951, opened the Edhi Home to house women in distress in 1986. Picture taken November 15, 2012. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY) 

An elderly woman suffering from mental illness sits on a wheelchair at the Edhi Home, a shelter for homeless and mentally ill women provided by Edhi foundation, in Karachi November 15, 2012. The Edhi Foundation, a non-profit social welfare programme in Pakistan founded by Abdul Sitar Edhi in 1951, opened the Edhi Home to house women in distress in 1986. Picture taken November 15, 2012. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY) 

Sherry, a 9-year-old abandoned child, cleans the floor in the halls of Edhi Home, a shelter for homeless and mentally ill women provided by Edhi foundation, in Karachi November 15, 2012. The Edhi Foundation, a non-profit social welfare programme in Pakistan founded by Abdul Sitar Edhi in 1951, opened the Edhi Home to house women in distress in 1986. Picture taken November 15, 2012. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY) 

A girl, who is an abandoned child, carries a sack of sweaters through the halls to be stored at the Edhi Home, a shelter for homeless and mentally ill women provided by Edhi foundation, in Karachi November 15, 2012. The Edhi Foundation, a non-profit social welfare programme in Pakistan founded by Abdul Sitar Edhi in 1951, opened the Edhi Home to house women in distress in 1986. Picture taken November 15, 2012. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY) 

Mentally ill women hold hands while walking in the hall of the Edhi Home, a shelter for homeless and mentally ill women provided by Edhi foundation, in Karachi November 15, 2012. The Edhi Foundation, a non-profit social welfare programme in Pakistan founded by Abdul Sitar Edhi in 1951, opened the Edhi Home to house women in distress in 1986. Picture taken November 15, 2012. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY) 

Sultana Begum, 70, who is paralysed and unable to stand, sits in her wheelchair in the hall of the Edhi Home, a shelter for homeless and mentally ill women provided by Edhi foundation, in Karachi November 15, 2012. Edhi Foundation, a non-profit social welfare programme in Pakistan founded by Abdul Sitar Edhi in 1951, opened the Edhi Home to house women in distress in 1986. Picture taken November 15, 2012. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: HEALTH SOCIETY) 

Naseema, 50, who says she is homeless after being driven out by her brother, sits in the hall of the Edhi Home, a shelter for homeless and mentally ill women provided by Edhi foundation, in Karachi November 15, 2012. Edhi Foundation, a non-profit social welfare programme in Pakistan founded by Abdul Sitar Edhi in 1951, opened the Edhi Home to house women in distress in 1986. Picture taken November 15, 2012. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY HEALTH) 

Anita, 8, an abandoned child, brushes her teeth at the the Edhi Home, a shelter for homeless and mentally ill women provided by Edhi foundation, in Karachi November 15, 2012. Edhi Foundation, a non-profit social welfare programme in Pakistan founded by Abdul Sitar Edhi in 1951, opened the Edhi Home to house women in distress in 1986. Picture taken November 15, 2012. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: HEALTH SOCIETY) 

Shahida Begum, 37, who has a degree in Arts, sits in a ward at the Edhi Home, a shelter for homeless and mentally ill women provided by Edhi foundation, in Karachi November 15, 2012. Begum, who decided to live in the home after she was beaten and divorced by her husband, says her mother and sisters did not want her to stay with them. The Edhi Foundation, a non-profit social welfare programme in Pakistan founded by Abdul Sitar Edhi in 1951, opened the Edhi Home to house women in distress in 1986. Picture taken November 15, 2012. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

Leila, 30, who suffers from a mental illness, stands in a corner of the Edhi Home, a shelter for homeless and mentally ill women provided by Edhi foundation, in Karachi November 15, 2012. Edhi Foundation, a non-profit social welfare programme in Pakistan founded by Abdul Sitar Edhi in 1951, opened the Edhi Home to house women in distress in 1986. Picture taken November 15, 2012. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: HEALTH SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

A woman suffering from an mental illness sleeps as others sit on the floors of the Edhi Home, a shelter for homeless and mentally ill women provided by Edhi foundation, in Karachi November 15, 2012. Edhi Foundation, a non-profit social welfare programme in Pakistan founded by Abdul Sitar Edhi in 1951, opened the Edhi Home to house women in distress in 1986. Picture taken November 15, 2012. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN) 

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Students play sitars at the Kabul Music Academy January 7, 2012. In Afghanistan's sole music academy, students learn how to play traditional and western instruments as part of a government initiative to relieve the pains of decades of war through music. Despite a rich musical legacy, Afghanistan's melodic development has been severely disrupted by years of war and outright banned during the austere rule of the Taliban. At the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, orphans learn how to sing and play instruments alongside talented promising musicians who are selected on merit. Picture taken January 7, 2012. To match Feature AFGHANISTAN-MUSIC/ REUTERS/Omar Sobhani (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY CONFLICT) 

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Afghan women play Sitars at the Kabul Music Academy January 7, 2012. In Afghanistan's sole music academy, students learn how to play traditional and western instruments as part of a government initiative to relieve the pains of decades of war through music. Despite a rich musical legacy, Afghanistan's melodic development has been severely disrupted by years of war and outright banned during the austere rule of the Taliban. At the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, orphans learn how to sing and play instruments alongside talented promising musicians who are selected on merit. Picture taken January 7, 2012. To match Feature AFGHANISTAN-MUSIC/ REUTERS/Omar Sobhani (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY CONFLICT) 

Abdul Sitar Edhi, the founder of the non-profit social welfare program the Edhi Foundation, takes a call at the main Edhi center in Karachi June 10, 2011. Photo taken June 10, 2011. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY PROFILE) 

Abdul Sitar Edhi, the founder of the non-profit social welfare program the Edhi Foundation, sits at the main Edhi center in Karachi June 10, 2011. Photo taken June 10, 2011. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY PROFILE) 

Abdul Sitar Edhi, the founder of the non-profit social welfare program the Edhi Foundation, sits at the main Edhi center in Karachi June 10, 2011. Photo taken June 10, 2011. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY PROFILE) 

Family members leave posted images of their missing relatives in the hallways of the Edhi morgue in Karachi June 8, 2011. Bodies of the unidentified are photographed and filed at the offices for future identification purposes. About four to five unclaimed bodies are brought to the Edhi centre daily and are taken to a hospital for medical examination before being held at the morgue for identification reasons. If unclaimed, the faces of the deceased are photographed and their bodies are prepared for burial. To date, about 73,000 unidentified bodies have been buried in the Edhi graveyard, the Edhi Foundation said. Founded by Abdul Sitar Edhi in 1951, the foundation is a non-profit social welfare program in Pakistan. Photo taken June 8, 2011. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY RELIGION) 

An Edhi employee poses with an image of an unidentified man at the Edhi morgue offices in Karachi June 10, 2011. Bodies of the unidentified are photographed and filed at the offices for future identification purposes. About four to five unclaimed bodies are brought to the Edhi centre daily and are taken to a hospital for medical examination before being held at the morgue for identification reasons. If unclaimed, the faces of the deceased are photographed and their bodies are prepared for burial. To date, about 73,000 unidentified bodies have been buried in the Edhi graveyard, the Edhi Foundation said. Founded by Abdul Sitar Edhi in 1951, the foundation is a non-profit social welfare program in Pakistan. Photo taken June 10, 2011. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY RELIGION) 

An Edhi employee places a marker upon the grave of an unidentified body at the Edhi graveyard in Karachi June 8, 2011. About four to five unclaimed bodies are brought to the Edhi centre daily and are taken to a hospital for medical examination before being held at the morgue for identification purposes. If unclaimed, the faces of the deceased are photographed and their bodies are prepared for burial. To date, about 73,000 unidentified bodies have been buried in the Edhi graveyard, the Edhi Foundation said. Founded by Abdul Sitar Edhi in 1951, the foundation is a non-profit social welfare program in Pakistan. Photo taken June 8, 2011. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY RELIGION) 

Employees of the Edhi centre lay unidentified bodies to rest at the Edhi graveyard in Karachi June 8, 2011. About four to five unclaimed bodies are brought to the Edhi centre daily and are taken to a hospital for medical examination before being held at the morgue for identification purposes. If unclaimed, the faces of the deceased are photographed and their bodies are prepared for burial. To date, about 73,000 unidentified bodies have been buried in the Edhi graveyard, the Edhi Foundation said. Founded by Abdul Sitar Edhi in 1951, the foundation is a non-profit social welfare program in Pakistan. Photo taken June 8, 2011. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY RELIGION)