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Mechanics call this the “Kabul Cut”—a rough welding job on the roll cage to fit the vehicle inside a covered truck. While the practice is illegal, it has saturated the grey market, making otherwise unaffordable machines accessible to mid-tier buyers. Not everyone is thrilled. Environmentalists in the northern valleys have begun protesting the use of SXS on fragile alpine meadows (margallas).

“Chinese parts are everywhere,” notes Yasir from a Saddar auto market. “You can fix a broken axle on a CFMOTO in a village workshop with a hammer and a welding rod. A Polaris? You wait three months for a belt from the US.” The SXS boom has a shadow economy. Due to high customs duties on fully built units, many high-end SXS vehicles enter Pakistan not via the Karachi port, but through the porous Torkham and Chaman borders with Afghanistan. These vehicles are often purchased in Dubai, driven to Kabul (where duties are negligible), and then smuggled south. pakistani sxs

For now, the SXS culture in Pakistan remains a raw, loud, and dusty affair. It is a fusion of American adrenaline, Chinese pragmatism, and Pashtun ingenuity. And on any given Friday, if you drive five kilometers past the last paved road, you will hear them: the happy scream of an engine and the louder scream of a man holding on for dear life. Mechanics call this the “Kabul Cut”—a rough welding