Pakistan ends sales tax on sanitary products in fight against period poverty

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The move to abolish the 18 percent tax is a significant step in addressing menstrual injustice across Pakistan Women’s rights activist and human rights lawyer Mahnoor Omer, 25, with children during a workshop in Pakistan, where she teaches reading and writing (supplied) Off Bushra Mahnoor grew up in Attock, in Pakistan’s Punjab province, where sanitary pads were carefully rationed among six menstruating women in her household – a reality reflected in many homes across the province. In a home sha