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72 hours since Pulwama attack: All the steps that Modi govt has taken so far

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Pulwama attack: 72 hours after the deadly attack, India is moving forward diplomatically and strategically in exposing Pakistan's use of terrorism as state policy aided by efforts to globally isolate the country. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley during a Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) meeting to discuss the situation arising after the Pulwama terror attack. (PTI) Following the Pulwama terror attack, India launched an all-out diplomatic effort to isolate Pakistan on global platforms. India also scrapped concessions it made to Pakistan in terms of trade, immediately revoking the Most Favoured Nation status and hiking excise duty on imports by 200 per cent. At least 40 soldiers of the CRPF were killed when a Jaishe-e-Mohammad suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden vehicle in the bus ferrying jawans on the Jammu-Srinagar highwa