Washington: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday that India has succeeded in convincing the world about the “face of terrorism” and hence not a single nation questioned the country’s major decision to conduct surgical strikes against terrorist launchpads on Pakistani soil.

The Prime Minister said the world could have put India in the dock for launching the strikes. “But for the first time, not one nation in the world raised a single question, about India's major step to conduct the surgical strikes against terror camps on Pakistani soil.”

“It is a different matter for those who had to suffer due to the surgical strikes,” he said, taking a jibe at Pakistan. India has been successful in convincing the world about the “face of terrorism” and that it was “destroying peace and normal life”, Modi said ahead of his first meeting with US President Donald Trump, who had reportedly offered to mediate between India and Pakistan on the Kashmir issue drawing sharp reactions from New Delhi.

India has maintained that the Kashmir issue between Islamabad and New Delhi should be resolved bilaterally, without the interference from any third party.

Mr Modi had some choice barbs for China, which of late has appeared to overcome its differences with the Trump administration over trade disputes and North Korea’s nuclear ambitions.