ISLAMABAD, June 9: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has denied any involvement in smuggling flour to Afghanistan.

Referring to a report published in Dawn’s Sunday issue, the WFP said in a press release that the WFP had not exported any flour through the Chaman border during the past several years.

It said that the trailer seized with 200 tons of flour did not belong to the WFP because it “does not use trailers for its humanitarian transport to Afghanistan”.

It also denied that Frontier Constabulary personnel had contacted WFP officials in Islamabad in this connection.

The press release also denied that the WFP staff were involved in the illegal practice of opening and re-sealing the container because WFP “neither seals its cargo nor uses containers”.