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Petition Challenges Pakistan’s Taxation of Menstrual Products as Luxury Items

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New Delhi, April 27 (IANS) A petition challenging Pakistan’s taxation of menstrual products as “luxury products” has drawn national attention but campaigners opined that a court victory may not by itself deliver a meaningful, lasting change, a new report has said.”Taxing menstrual products compounds inequality by attaching a recurring cost to a biological function that affects women and gendered bodies almost exclusively,” the report from Express Tribune said, particularly calling out Pakistan…