Smuggling Of Cheap Flour, Govt Issued Order To Bar

PAKISTAN, LAHORE: The government of Punjab has issued orders to the checkposts on border to remain alert in stopping countrywide sale of cheap priced flour from Punjab to other provinces of Pakistan.

Rana Sanaullah, Punjab’s law minister, has not banned the countrywide sale of wheat but he merely passed orders to remain ready against transportation of cheap-priced flour from Punjab to across Pakistan.

According to Punjab food department, Punjab provides other provinces 4000 to 5000 ton flour on daily basis but in the month of Ramazan, 20 kg sack of flour will be sold at Rs.200, so it could possibly be smuggled to other provinces.

According to sources, the orders came for discourage smuggling of cheap-priced flour to other provinces from Punjab and the ban will be lifted as soon as the scheme ends.