Food Department thwarted various attempts of wheat flour smuggling along with recovery of 15,762.375 tonnes of commodity during a crackdown launched at different food check posts along the inter districts Attock, Rawalpindi, Jhelum and Chakwal.According to a district administration spokesman, 198 FIRs had been lodged in different police stations against wheat and flour smugglers. He informed that Secretary Food, Zaman Wattoo accompanied by Commissioner Rawalpindi Division Liaquat Ali Chatha here the other day met with a delegation of the Flour Mills Association.
During the meeting, Deputy Commissioner Rawalpindi Hasan Waqar Cheema, Deputy Director Food Mehr Ghulam Abbas and other officers concerned were also present. The Secretary Food was informed that the administration had finalized all arrangements and set up 14 check posts at all exit points to check wheat and flour smuggling. He was further informed that the flour recovered from the impounded trucks would be supplied to the citizens at controlled rates through trucking points to be set up at various places.
