I have a set of Pakistani pies but Ive repleced the chanter with a War-mac polypenco chanter fitted a little mac and fitted Souter synthetic reeds. I can cork the drones and use it as a goose. I have a more expensive set for band stuff but I got the Pakistani ones to work OK.

I would reccomend you dont worry about pipes for the time being and get a FULL SIZE good quality practice chanter, a cheap chanter will hold you back.
find a decent band and get some lessons, its pointless trying to teach yourself. a good band will give you cheap lessons youll also get first refusal on equipment for sale, most bands will let you march with them with the pipes corked until you get the hang of things, youll be on the chanter for about 12 months learning the scale, GDE grace notes, doublings, Birl and throw on D. taorluath and leumluath. once you can do these you move on to a couple of tunes normally "Bruces address" and "High road to Gairloch".

then you can think of moving onto pipes with stopped up drones.

So dont rush and buy some cheap pipes buy a good full-size chanter

good luck