Saudi Arabia, in particular, has billions invested in India in areas like energy and infrastructure. Four million Indians live in Saudi Arabia, forming a crucial part of the kingdom’s workforce and sending billions of dollars home in remittances. Against this volatile backdrop comes the new three-way Mecca Defence pact between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkiye. That’s not true of Saudi Arabia or Turkiye, both of which have important economic and strategic reasons to maintain relations with Delhi. How does that square with membership of a Saudi-led security arrangement when Saudi Arabia and Iran remain at loggerheads?