Why Pakistan?

[Steve Ashton]

There is an enduring myth that I cannot verify that says that it was not kilts or uniforms that started all this but sporting goods.
The myth says that some British Officer broke his lawn tennis racket and went into Sailkot to have it repaired.

Kilt manufacturing in Sailkot is fairly recent. Only in the last few years. Since the advent of synthetic kilts which started with Bear Kilts back in 2001 and USA Kilts soon thereafter. There is some evidence that The Gold Bros. also had some part in this. There are some who claim that it was The Gold Bros. who sent the first Casual type, synthetic kilt, to Pakistan to be copied.
Some point to the use of "P/V" as a sort of catch phrase for any synthetic kilt as evidence of this.

They were producing musical instruments, hand embroidered patches for uniforms and leather goods long before they began to get into kilts. I honestly do not think that British units in the region is the reason, as British presence ended there in 1947. I think it is economics. They found a market and began to exploit it.