offcourse we do distribute sweets on the birth of a girl....
u might be taking an example and generalizing it....
i am yet to meet a pakistani who has differentiated between the gender of the child for the distribution of sweets....
in my old family, my sister's birth was the time when most sweets were given out....
Its not a problem in Pakistan overall, it could be specific to low income families.
But I think one stops distributing mithai after 6th or 7th child... no matter if last one is son or daughter.
I remember once when my chacha had his first born, and it was a girl. So i went with him to distribute the sweets in our neighborhood. I remember there was this one aunty, she was like...."Oh dont worry Inshallah the next child will be a son". And my chacha got so pissed...he went "Whos getting worried."
There still is a considerable amount of Jahalat back home....
This practice is still alive and kicking and weird enough, I see even the new generations born and bred in the UK carrying on with it.
Usually it is luddos or some circular sweet to signify the addition of a new pair of balls in the family. Ours is a very traditionalist society and we take our cultural idiosyncrasies very seriously.
A boy is considered an asset and someone who remains in the family till end, while girls are considered someone else's property (sorry to use such a sad term), but that's what explains why a boy's birth is celebrated more than a baby girl's.
I have two pigs, and I don’t think we are going to have any more kids, but I would have given a planeload of Mithaee had I been blessed with a daughter. Oh well, I have to live with the fact that I have defective sperm.