TAXILA: The food department of Taxila and Fatehjang foiled different attempts to smuggle huge quantity of wheat and flour from district Rawalpindi and Attock to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).

Talking to newsmen in Taxila, assistant food controller Aabid Ijaz Khan said during an operation a covey of five trucks was intercepted while sneaking into the KP and seized five vehicles loaded with 2,440 bags of wheat besides arresting their drivers.

He further said that a convoy two vehicles was also intercepted near Taxila and 1,210 bags of flour and 550 bags of wheat and were seized their drivers arrested.

In Wah Saddar area, the officials of the food department intercepted a truck at Brahma interchange which was carrying wheat to KP.

In Fatehjang, the food department foiled two different bids of smuggling two truckloads of flour and arrested two persons. Separate cases were registered against the accused under the Food Act.

Published in Dawn, July 24th, 2022