Orders issued to stop wheat smuggling

The Food Department Rawalpindi has been directed to strictly monitor exit points to control wheat smuggling.

According to a district administration spokesman, Deputy Commissioner (DC) Rawalpindi Tahir Farooq while inspecting the pickets set up by the Food Department at M1 Motorway directed the authorities to strictly monitor the movement of wheat and take strict action per the law against violators.

He said that all the exit points of the Rawalpindi division were being monitored round the clock to control wheat smuggling as the administration had set up 14 check posts at exit points of the four districts of the division to check wheat smuggling.

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The administration in collaboration with police and the Special Branch was carrying out operations and a special monitoring system had also been developed particularly for exit points of the Rawalpindi division to check wheat smuggling. A comprehensive plan had been formulated to curb the smuggling of wheat, he added.

The check posts were set up at exit points of Rawalpindi, Attock, Jhelum and Chakwal districts, he said and informed, the district administration in collaboration with the Motorway police and the food department managed to control wheat smuggling and impounded several trucks besides recovering huge quantity of wheat being illegally shipped out of the division.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 9^th, 2022.