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Are the Pakistani fans still manufactured?

I've visited some of those "factories" in Burma and India and they're just small workshops with other shops making machined parts, castings, etc. Most of the work is done on the floor. The Pakistan fans from the 1980s-90s are indeed well made and run better than their Kyko ancestors (Kyko was a British stirling fan from the 1920s-30s popular in colonial India). But I have to disagree that the Pak fans were made for peoples' use in Pakistan. They were much too expensive for anyone in rural areas without electricity and were mostly made for the international collector market. Most of the Indian fans made these days are more for a decorator market, both local and international.