NO WORLD LEADER TOLD INDIA TO STOP OP SINDOOR: PM

Rebutting the charges, Prime Minister Modi said the Congress is 'importing issues from Pakistan'

- ABHINANDAN MISHRA NEW DELHI

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday launched a blistering counter to Opposition charges in the Lok Sabha, asserting that India's retaliatory military campaign against Pakistan under Operation Sindoor exposed the neighbouring country's vulnerabilities and was executed without succumbing to any international pressure. Modi, in his most detailed remarks yet since the 22 April Pahalgam terror attack, categorically dismissed suggestions by the Congress and its leader Rahul Gandhi that New Delhi's response was limited or externally influenced.

"No global leader told us to stop. Operation Sindoor is still on and will continue as long as necessary, on our timeline and on our terms," PM Modi told Parliament on the day it was announced by Home minister Shah that the security forces had killed all the three Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists on Monday who had executed the Pahalgam massacre.

PM Modi further disclosed that Pakistan's leadership had "pleaded for a ceasefire" after sustained Indian missile and drone strikes dismantled multiple terror launchpads and military assets across the border.

"Pakistan then called our DGMO and requested to stop, saying 'bahut maara, ab zyada maar jhelne ki takat nahi hai, please hamla rok do' (you have hit us hard, we do not have the capacity to endure more attacks, please stop)," the Prime Minister said. "Our missiles attacked Pakistan in a way they could not even imagine. We brought them to their knees."