3546 MT wheat, 296 MT flour smuggling bids foiled in Attock.

ATTOCK -- The Food Department Attock with the assistance of police and other law enforcement agencies foiled 172 bids to smuggle wheat from Punjab to KP and confiscated as many as 3546.50 metric tons of wheat during the last two months. It also foiled 17 different bids to smuggle wheat products and confiscated 296.86 metric tons of wheat products, especially flour.

Talking to newsmen here on Tuesday, District Food Controller Muhammad Ramzan Sial said that acting upon a tip off, the the Department's officials foiled nine different bids to smuggle wheat flour from Punjab to KP and intercepted nine different trucks by confiscating as many 11,000 bags of flour.

While...