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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his first address to the nation after US President Donald Trump said he had brokered a ceasefire between India and Pakistan, said that India had inflicted so much damage on Pakistan’s air bases and military establishments that its DGMO, on the afternoon of May 10, called up his Indian counterpart to ensure the Indian military would not take further action.

Modi also said that no “nuclear blackmail will be tolerated anymore” and reiterated his government’s stated policy that “talks and terror cannot go hand in hand”.

Modi’s statement was a departure from what US President Donald Trump and US secretary of state Marco Rubio had said – that talks would take place between India and Pakistan “at a neutral location” following the ceasefire announcement.

Modi said that India’s biggest success in the four-day long military standoff was the attack on two of Pakistan’s top most terror hubs – Bahawalpur and Muridke.

On May 7, India conducted military strikes on nine targets in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in the aftermath of........

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