‘Highest-ever quantity of wheat, flour seized’

District food controller says 2,900 metric tons of wheat, 1,400 metric tons of flour smuggling bids were foiled

WAH CANTT:

District Food Controller Rawalpindi Sufian Asif Awan has said that the highest ever quantity of wheat and flour was confiscated by the food department during the last two months which were being smuggled from different parts of Punjab to Khyber Pakhtunkhawa.

Talking to the media at the Brahma Bhattar interchange on Friday about the operations carried out by the food department during the month of August and September, he said the food department in collaboration with police had foiled the smuggling bid of 3,400 metric tons of wheat and flour.

He added that 2,900 metric tons of wheat and 1,400 metric tons of flour smuggling bids from Punjab to KP were foiled.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 24^th, 2022.