Bids to smuggle wheat, flour foiled

The Rawalpindi Food Department and district police on Tuesday foiled three bids to smuggle wheat and flour and seized 245 wheat and flour bags.

According to a district administration spokesman, the authorities of the food department along with Taxila and Saddar Wah police confiscated two Suzuki pickups and a truck loaded with 115 flour bags and 130 wheat bags. Three drivers namely Mashood, Faisal and Aman were also sent behind bars and police impounded two Suzuki pickups and a truck, he added.

The spokesman 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.

The administration 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. The check posts were set up at exit points of Rawalpindi, Attock, Jhelum and Chakwal districts, he said adding that the district administration in collaboration with the motorway police and the food department was making efforts to control wheat smuggling.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 22^nd, 2022.