India, July 30 -- No world leader asked India to stop military operations during Operation Sindoor, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Parliament on Tuesday, dismissing Opposition allegations and also confirming for the first time that Pakistan had started issuing nuclear threats soon after the April 22 Pahalgam attack.

In a speech spanning 1 hour 37 minutes, Modi mocked opposition leaders for raising doubts about Operation Sindoor, credited his government's defence reform agenda for transforming the military and creating a new normal with Pakistan, blamed Jawaharlal Nehru for the Indus Waters Treaty, alleged that appeasement politics practised by previous governments was responsible for nurturing terrorism in India, and said the Congress...