Go with a used set of Dunbar P-1s.

My son has them (he's a much better piper than I, at age 13), and I'm picking up my set of polypenco pipes tonight.

PiobBear's comments above seem dead on regarding pakistani made pipes.

Perhaps, in order to help you make up your mind, you could listen to the differences via videos of bands on YouTube. I have seen and heard what were clearly ****-pipes played by bands in the Middle East (I think Jerusalem?) from there.

All in all, it is the sound you are after, and there are many different kinds of bagpipes, not all Great Highland Pipes.

Hey, I'm still new to the piping game, so that's just my two cents.