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Investment at the cost of letting people die. A much needed tax requested by civil society which could save lives in Pakistan. The 2024-25 budget formulation is at its full swing. The beverage industry is using traditional seductive tactics on the name of foreign investment and exports to Pakistani policy makers to escape taxes. The civil society of Pakistan and health professionals collectively rejects such tactics of the beverage industry and termed it plan for killing people by building a huge burden on the health sector and hence, economy of the country. Pakistan is a country with more than 1100 people dying daily due to diabetes and its complications, over 300 limbs amputated every day and a heart attack occurs every single minute. In a joint stamen issued, they requested FBR, IMF a...