India, June 18 -- Indian PM Narendra Modi held a 35-minute telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump, in which he stressed that India has never asked for, and will never accept, third-party mediation to resolve the issue of Pakistan's illegal occupation of parts of Jammu and Kashmir.

Modi spoke with Trump over Operation Sindoor, which was launched by India on terror hubs in Pakistan and PoK last month, days after a terror attack in the Pahalgam region of Jammu and Kashmir left 26 people dead.

Speaking on the conversation between the two leaders, Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said: "PM Modi stressed that India never accepted mediation nor does it accept it now, nor will it ever do that. On this issue, there is full po...