2 bids to smuggle 637 flour bags foiled

RAWALPINDI    -     The Food Department Rawalpindi and district police here on Tuesday foiled two bids to smuggle 637 wheat and flour bags. According to a district administration spokesman, the authorities of the food department along with Potohar Division police conducted raids in different areas and rounded up two drivers namely Saif Ali and Bashir Khan and recovered 637 wheat and flour bags. He informed that the accused were trying to smuggle wheat flour bags out of the Rawalpindi division. The Food Department Rawalpindi and district police on the directives of the Deputy Commissioner (DC) and City Police Officer, Rawalpindi were strictly monitoring all the exit points of Rawalpindi district to foil wheat and flour smuggling bids, he added. He said several bids were foiled last week and teams recovered thousands of wheat, flour and fine flour (maida) bags from the possession of the arrested accused.

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