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Motorway Police recovers 23 trucks loaded with wheat
Vigilance teams to ensure smooth flour supply in Capital
SHR Jahfery
Islamabad—Deputy Commissioner, Islamabad Amer Ali Ahmed has
constituted three vigilance teams consisting of Assistant
Commissioners and Magistrates to ensure smooth availability of 20 kg
flour bags at the control rate in the city and rural areas of
Islamabad.
Deputy Commissioner Islamabad Amer Ali Ahmed told that ICT
Administration is in constant touch with the flour mills while mill
owners have been directed to ensure smooth supply of flour bags in
Islamabad.
He further told that ICT Administration has also launched mobile
service and ten trucks loaded with flour bags would be despatched to
the city and rural areas on daily basis to meet the demands of the
Community in any area.
Moreover, Deputy Commissioner said that Chief Commissioner Islamabad
Hamid Ali Khan is also in touch with the government of Punjab for
ensuring smooth supply of Wheat to the flour mills of Islamabad.
ICT Administration has requested government of Punjab to ensure the
smooth supply of Wheat to the flour mills of Islamabad to avert any
problematic situation, he added.
On Wednesday, Assistant Commissioner (Sadar) Malik Afsar Khan,
Magistrate (Sadar) Liaqat Abbassi Assistant Commissioner (City)
Maryam Khan, City Magistrate Farasat Ali Khan, magistrate Kamran
Cheema along with District Food Controller ICT and revenue staff.
Naib Tehsildar Imtiaz Janjua conducted checking of flour mills and
markets and ensured the availability of flour bags in the markets at
the fixed rates.
Smuggling Bid foiled: National Highways & Motorway Police has foiled
attempts of smuggling wheat and flour through motorways and
recovered 23 trucks loaded with 3450 Bags of Flour and wheat, which
were being transported illegally from Punjab to NWFP.
As per detail, during routine patrolling near Sukheki on Motorway,
Police officers SPO Atif Nawaz, SPO Muhammad Imran, SPO Aman Ullah
and PO Qamar Hussain Qadri observed that 13 trucks were entering the
motorway by cutting the fence from various places.
They were intercepted and it revealed that they were carrying wheat
and flour, which was being smuggled to Peshawar. Motorway Police
arrested all the culprits and took the trucks into its custody.
In another incident, Motorway police stopped three trucks which were
carrying wheat, to smuggle it. The drivers of trucks were arrested
and trucks taken into custody.
Then near Khan Ka Dogran, Motorway police intercepted two more
trucks also smuggling wheat to Peshawar. Still in another incident,
motorway police officers SPO Allah Dad and PO Noor Muhammad stopped
two trucks bearing loaded with wheat, running from Pindi Bhattian to
Peshawar truck entered motorway from Pindi Bhattian Interchange
without getting entry card, which was stopped by NH&MP officers SPO
Muhammad Iqbal and it revealed that wheat was being smuggled from
Pindi Bhattian to Hari Pur.
The Motorway Police handed over the arrested smugglers along with
the recovered trucks and wheat to the concerned local Police legal
action and investigation.
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