Bagpipe makers of the Punjab still paying homage to Caledonia

Tartan plaids adorn shop windows strewn with sporrans, spats and Glengarry hats.

Between them, a dozen bagpipe-makers squat in cubbyhole workshops, open to the street, turning chanters and ferrules on roaring diesel lathes.

It is a vision of highland heaven, a homage to Caledonia in the heart of the Pakistani Punjab.

Mohammad Younis sits behind the counter in Golden Pipes, one of at least 15 bagpipe shops in Sialkot.

With more than 20 pipe bands in Sialkot alone, and probably hundreds more across Pakistan, business is fine, he says.

'I guess we've always loved the bagpipes, I suppose they're just part of our tradition,' he says, sitting beneath a 'Songs of Scotland' tea towel, celebrating the bonny, bonny banks of Loch Lomond.