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    16 hours ago

    This will be uplifting when and only when she succeeds. Until then it’s merely hopeful.

    I don’t say this to minimise what she’s trying to do. I hope she succeeds. But she has a hell of a mountain to climb. It’s not that long since VAT* was eradicated on those products here in the UK, supposedly a modern, forward-thinking nation.

    She’s in Pakistan. There’s a lot more religious and cultural misogyny to fight there.

    * Value Added Tax. Roughly equivalent to both “sales tax” and “luxury tax” elsewhere.