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RSS chief says India should be ready for nuclear war NEW DELHI: The head of India's rightwing Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh ( RSS , National Volunteers Corps) has warned that a nuclear war with Pakistan could become inevitable if peaceful means fail to rein in terrorism and voiced the chilling prospect of a Third World War breaking out, which he feels may cleanse the world of evil . Mr K.S. Sudarshan, the powerful supreme leader of the RSS who may wield even greater clout in the next government, said in an interview widely distributed on the email on Thursday, and verified as authentic by senior RSS officials on Friday, that the Mumbai terror attacks were only part of a bigger plan to destroy India . "They want India to be broken into pieces but Indian people have always won. " "We are tolerant, but a very brave society. We were defeated and enslaved only when we were disunited." However, in remarks that could leave global diplomacy grappling with chilling poss...

NEW DELHI, India—Feb 19 2007: Wahid Khan had come to the Old Delhi Railway Station here last night to see off his relatives who were going to Pakistan to attend a marriage. Shock and disbelief writ large on his face, Khan, a resident of adjoining Ghaziabad, was back at the station this morning frantically looking for information about his relatives as news came in of twin explosions on the Samjhauta Express . Khan's 70-year-old mother, brother Tariqat (25) and friend Isteghar were on the train. " They were going to Pakistan to attend a marriage function. They were so happy to be able to go to Pakistan. I am just hoping somebody tells me they are safe and sound ," he said. Sixty-eight-year-old Mohammad Ali came to the station looking for his son Tanveer's father-in-law, Afzal Khan who had come from Pakistan to attend a function and was going back. Afzal's wife and his 18-year-old daughter Tanya were also with him on the train and their whereabouts were unknown. Al...