this story originally appeared in on feb 18 2019this article was originally published by the economic times on 18022019 india is urging close allies and key strategic partners across continents to scale back commercial activities and investments in pakistan in the backdrop of the pulwama terror attack saying it often diverts such funds to finance crossborder terror activitiesthe narendra modi government is trying to convince other countries about the necessity to put brakes on their investments in pakistan mounting coercive diplomacy to force islamabad to stop funding terror groups people familiar with the development said this message was delivered to delhibased envoys as well as those in other capitals they saidindia has also urged foreign envoys and strategic partners to issue stronger statements naming and shaming pakistan and paksponsored terror groups including jaishemohd sources said delhi has been for decades urging the us to scale back its financial support to pakistan as the pakistan army often allegedly misused us funds for funding crossborder terror activities against india besides using arms supplied by the us for counterterror operations against india the diplomatic push sources said is aimed at increasing costs on pakistan which is alleged to use terror as a state policy besides the foreign secretary all the three other secretaries in the external affairs ministry have engaged with countries under their jurisdiction to push for action against islamabad india itself has already withdrawn the most favoured nation status to pakistan the diplomatic outreach has borne initial fruits with many countries voicing support to india and its fight against terror besides the national security advisor of the us russian nsa nikolai patrushev is understood to have send a message to his indian counterpart a saudi business delegation accompanying crown prince mohd bin salman to pakistan has scaled down its participation in an investment summit sources said the crown prince has himself cut short his visit to islamabad ahead of his india trip as saudi arabia seeks to balance its ties between strategic partner and market economy india vis vis old ally pakistansaudi support is critical to indias coercive diplomacy against islamabad as riyadh remains a key investor in pakistan the uae another close strategic partner of india is also an investor in pakistan so has been turkey for decades japan and some european nations also have some investments in pakistanhowever china by far remains biggest the investor and lender to pakistan and its investments in recent years have been devoted for the chinapakistaneconomiccorridorindia has received strong support from iran which was targeted by a pakistanbased terror group a day ahead of the pulwama attack the powerful revolutionary guards in iran has threatened action against pakistani security forces for wednesdays suicide bombing in sistanbaluchistan province echoing indias position on pakistan state support for crossborder terror foreign minister sushma swaraj met irans deputy foreign minister in tehran on her way to bulgaria and the two explored expanding counterterror partnership in the regionaccording to diplomatic sources pakistans tactic behind pulwama attack appears to have been