Bids to smuggle wheat & flour foiled; 2656 bags confiscated.

RAWALPINDI -- The Food Department Rawalpindi and district police on Thursday foiled bids to smuggle wheat and flour besides seizing 2656 wheat and flour bags.

According to a district administration spokesman, the authorities of the food department along with Naseerabad police confiscated five trucks loaded with 1400 flour bags and 1256 wheat bags.

Five drivers namely Ibrar, Ghulam Mustafa, Riaz, Rehman Ullah and Rasool Muhammad were also sent behind the bars and police impounded five trucks, he added.

The authorities concerned had been directed to strictly monitor district exit points to control wheat smuggling, he said adding, Deputy Commissioner (DC) Rawalpindi Tahir Farooq had instructed the authorities to strictly monitor the movement of wheat and take strict action in accordance with the law against the rules violators.

The spokesman said that all the exit points of Rawalpindi division were being monitored round the...