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NEW DELHI, June 8 (Reuters) - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage left India for Estonia on Saturday, a U.S. embassy official said, after the U.S. envoy wound up a South Asia mission aimed at averting war between India and Pakistan.

Officials have said Armitage will brief U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who is in Estonia, before Rumsfeld travels to Pakistan and India next week.

Armitage held talks with Indian leaders including Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on Friday and said Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf had told him he was ready to do anything to avert a conflict with India.

Indian newspapers said Armitage's visit had raised hopes in New Delhi.

"A little light broke through the war clouds over the subcontinent," said the The Hindustan Times.

Strategic Affairs analyst Jasjit Singh wrote in the Indian Express that the visit to Pakistan and India appeared to have gone off successfully.

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