No losses to military assets in Operation Sindoor: Rajnath

No phone call between Modi and Trump between April 22 and June 17: Jaishankar

- ARCHIS MOHAN

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said in the Lok Sabha on Monday that the Indian defence forces did not lose any of their military assets during Operation Sindoor.

He also rejected, as did External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, the claims by United States (US) President Donald Trump that he mediated a ceasefire between India and Pakistan, which ended the four-day conflict between the two neighbours in the evening of May 10.

Singh at 2 pm initiated the special discussion in the Lok Sabha on "India's strong, successful and decisive Operation Sindoor in response to the terror attack in Pahalgam", with Jaishankar taking part in the discussion in the evening.

In his intervention, Jaishankar said that at no stage in any conversation with the US did trade have a bearing on Operation Sindoor.

He said the request for halting the military action came from the Pakistan side.

Responding to the Opposition's criticism of India's foreign policy, the external affairs minister said it was to the credit of India's diplomacy that The Resistance Front (TRF), the terror group behind the Pahalgam terror attack, had been designated a global terror organisation by the US.

"On May 10, we received phone calls sharing the impression of other countries that Pakistan was ready to cease the fighting.