KHYBER
\nDue to unserious initiatives by the local administration and food department, sugar is excessively smuggled to Afghanistan via Torkham border, locals said.
\nA local sugar smuggler said that he smuggled 70 of 50 kg bags daily in his vehicle in three trips from Landi Kotal to Torkham by paying ten thousands rupees to food department, administration and police officials at Michni checkpoint.
\nMaximum number of Afghanistan bound trucks, loaded with export or transit goods involved in the unlawful business, he opined.
\nAs compared to last week\u2019s 150 kg rate of sugar, presently 190 rupees kg has been the noted price of the commodity in the local market.
\nLayman expressed deep concern over the unprecedented rise in the price of sugar and said it was an additional burden put on the middle class citizen who priorly could not feed his family three times meal, in view of the poor economic condition in the country.
\nA local taxi driver, Bakhmal Khan said that his income was decreasing while prices of daily usage increased and the incompetent officials intended to deprive the poor of their right of living.
\nHe went on that under the nose of the concerned officials; loaded vehicles of sugar, smuggled from Landi Kotal warehouses to Afghanistan through Torkham border at night compelled them to buy sugar 190 rupees per kg in the local market.
\nZahoor Khan, retail seller in Landi Kotal bazaar said that rapid change in sugar rate from the wholesale dealers not only confused shopkeepers but also the consumers.
\nIn one day, the price of the sugar was raised to 500 rupees per 50 kg bag, he added and said because of uncertainty prevailing in the market pertaining to the price of sugar, the selling rate of the commodity was different from the price in the evening.
\nWhen a wholesaler of sugar and ghee in the local bazaar, Nasrullah Afridi was asked about the quick rise in price of sugar he added that the mill owners of sugar were responsible for the price hike of the commodity.
\nHe maintained that as for smuggling purposes, demand of sugar in the national market was raised therefore the mill owners increased the rate of sugar.
\nCommenting on the matter in a statement, issued by the Deputy Commissioner, Khyber office stated that the district administration strived hard to halt illegal export of sugar smuggling however the initiatives would be effective if the entire concerned department collectively vow to stop it.
\nIt further stated that so far 56250 kg of smuggling sugar had been confiscated by the administration officials in raids carried out in Landi Kotal and Torkham.
\nAs per reliable source as many as 0.4 lakh tons of sugar has been smuggled to Afghanistan and Central Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KHYBER Due to unserious initiatives by the local administration and food department, sugar is excessively smuggled to Afghanistan via Torkham border, locals said. A local sugar smuggler said that he smuggled 70 of 50 kg bags daily in his vehicle in three trips from Landi Kotal to Torkham by paying ten thousands rupees to food […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-354027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-peshawar"},"yoast_head":"\n