We can't settle our difference with India because they are a total bunch of morons.
The secular, nationalist Pakistanis need to keep a lid on the Islamists. This is the only way CPEC can possibly work.
Pakistan's founding father, Jinnah, was a moderate Muslim, as is their current Prime Minister but their population is full of nutjobs.
"His time at the Bombay bar suggests that young Mr Jinnah identified himself first and foremost as a modern Indian. To him most religious practices were either meaningless rituals or useless superstitions.
Dietary restrictions were summarily rejected by him. From all accounts he ate and drank at Bombay’s finest eateries like Cornaglia’s Restaurant. These eateries did not serve halal food and that did not seem to bother him in the least. Indeed he was the embodiment of Macaulay’s ideal Indian, an Indian by skin and name but an Englishman in tastes and habits. From his time in London, he also imbibed the best that British liberalism had to offer, rejecting racial distinctions and tribal associations as relics of the past."
https://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/...islamic-cultural-relativist-or-a-brown-sahib/