New Delhi, Sept. 23 -- Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has repudiated US President Donald Trump's repeated assertion of brokering a "ceasefire" between India and Pakistan, saying India never needed persuading because, through Operation Sindoor, the country's target was terror infrastructure in Pakistan that was achieved on the first day of the operation.

"We never needed persuading because day one of the Operation Sindoor, we said we are only targeting the terrorists. If Pakistan hits us, we will hit them back, and if they stop, we will stop. So, the day the Pakistanis called our DGMO (Director General of Military Operations) and said, 'we wanted to call it off, ' we said fine," Tharoor said in an interview with ANI.

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