Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh insisted on Wednesday that "India does not take dictation from anyone" but "writes its own script."
"Some claim to have stopped the operation between India and Pakistan. Nobody stopped it," Singh told a public gathering in Hyderabad, the capital of Telangana state.
He stressed that Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar "also made it clear that India rejected third-party role in the conflict."