New Delhi, July 30 -- Prime minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday asserted that no world leader asked India to stop its armed response to the 22 April terror attack in Pahalgam, effectively rejecting US president Donald Trump's repeated claims that he brought about a ceasefire between New Delhi and Islamabad that gave ammunition to the opposition to target the government.

Speaking in the Lok Sabha, Modi informed that Operation Mahadev, which began on Monday, had brought the perpetrators of the Pahalgam attack to justice.

India's Operation Sindoor, launched in response to the terror attack, was non-escalatory in nature, the prime minister highlighted. As many as 26 civilians were murdered by Pakistan-sponsored terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir...