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900 bags of flour seized on motorway

Published May 20, 2008
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ATTOCK, May 19: As many as 900 bags of atta were seized at the Burhan interchange on Islamabad-Peshawar Motorway, police said on Monday.

The police said the 900 bags of 20kg each were recovered during the checking of a truck (Peshawar-3049), which were being smuggled to the NWFP from Faisalabad.

Police have arrested the truck driver Hafta Gul, a resident of Kurram Agency, and also registered a flour smuggling case against him.

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