Wheat and flour smuggling bid foiled

Rawalpindi Food Department seizes 17,328 wheat and flour bags in 10 days

RAWALPINDI:

The Rawalpindi Food Department and district police while conducting raids in different areas foiled bids to smuggle wheat and flour besides seizing 17,328 wheat and flour bags and 26 tons of fine wheat flour (maida) during the last 10 days.

According to a district administration spokesman, the authorities of the food department along with Rawalpindi district and motorway police conducted raids and managed to foil many wheat smuggling bids.

Around 33 truckloads of wheat, flour and fine wheat flour (maida) were confiscated. The authorities concerned had been directed to strictly monitor district exit points to control wheat smuggling. A spokesman for the district administration said that all 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.

The administration in collaboration with police and 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.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 20^th, 2022.