Ranked eighth among the highest TB (tuberculosis) burdened countries in the world, Pakistan faces a $100.36 million funding gap for the next five years to fight the lung disease that causes most female deaths as a single infectious agent than all other causes of maternal mortality. Statistics available with Daily Times show that TB is responsible for 5.1 percent of the total national disease burden in Pakistan. The proportion of children is from three to five per cent and both males and females are predisposed equally to the disease, as every 40 patients among 100,000 die of TB. Pakistan requires $209.84 million funds for TB control and prevention initiative from 2009 to 2013. Among these funds, $37.19 million will be spent in 2009, $38.83 million in 2010, $41.61 million in 2011, $ 44.67 in 2012 and $47.54 million in 2013. Of these ample funds, National TB Control Programme (NTCP), a Health Ministry