Over 3500 MT wheat, 300 MT flour smuggling bids foiled in Attock

Attock: The food department Attock with the assistance of police and other law enforcement agencies foiled eight different bids to smuggle 600 bags of flour and 900 bags of wheat from Punjab to KP and arrested 8 alleged smugglers on early hours of Tuesday. The smuggling bids were foiled on GT road as well as on motorway.

Talking to newsmen here, district food controller Muhammad Ramzan Sial has said that during last three days, food department official with the assistance of area police and other law enforcement agencies foiled over 19, 000 kilogram of flour and 11, 900 kilogram of wheat smuggling bid foiled while arrested around 20 smugglers.

While briefing the progress of the food department Attock during last two months he informed that the food department foiled 172 bids to smuggle wheat from Punjab to KP and confiscated as many as 3546.50 metric tons of wheat and foiled 17 different bids to smuggle wheat products while confiscating 296.86 metric tons of wheat products especially flour. While sharing details of food department activities in various tehsil of the district, he revealed that in Bassal as many as 12 different bids to smuggle wheat were foiled and as many as 4609 kilogram of wheat was confiscated, in Fatehjang 89 different bids to smuggle wheat were foiled and as many as 37994 kilogram of wheat was confiscated, in Hassanabdal as many as 7 different bids to smuggle wheat were foiled and as many as 4976 kilogram of wheat was confiscated, in Chauntra as many as 22 different bids to smuggle wheat were foiled and as many as 9315 kilogram of wheat was confiscated, in Faqirabad as many as ten different bids to smuggle wheat were foiled and as many as 4408 kilogram of wheat was confiscated, in Pindigheb as many as 19 different bids to smuggle wheat were foiled and as many as 4854 kilogram of wheat was confiscated while in tehsil Attock as many as 13 different bids to smuggle wheat were foiled and as many as 4774 kilogram of wheat was confiscated.

Responding a question, he said that food smugglers smuggle wheat and wheat products to various parts of KP due its high price there.