It is deeply troubling that in 2025, Pakistani women are still made to feel shame for a natural biological process and must also pay a financial penalty for managing it. The imposition of heavy taxes on sanitary pads — a product essential to women's health and dignity — is indeed a longstanding neglect of gender equality in policy and governance.

Lawyer Mahnoor Omer's petition filed in the Lahore High Court rightly challenges what many have called a "period........

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