Vegetable and Soil Contaminations with Heavy Metals and Human Health Risks in the Southern Selected Districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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2009
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DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
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All gratitude and praises to Almighty Allah, the most benevolent, gracious, beneficent,
compassionate and ever merciful, without Whose consent and consecration nothing
would ever be imaginable. I am absolutely beholden by my Lord’s generosity in this
effort. Praises be to Holy Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W.), for He is a beacon as I pace on
in my whole-life and work, who endowed me with the potential and courage to complete
this research work.
First of all, I want to acknowledge my supervisor Dr. Sardar Khan, Associate Professor,
Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Peshawar, Pakistan without whom
may I would not been able to compile this study. I am cordially obliged to my Cosupervisor
Dr. Prof. Syed Mohammad Tahir Shah, National Centre of Excellence in
Geology, University of Peshawar, Pakistan for his generous support and encouragement
during the entire period of my PhD study.I like to gratitude my foreign supervisor Prof.
Dr. Mark L Bruceau, Department of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, University
of Arizona, United States of America for his sincere help in completing ICP-MS work for
my thesis. | am thankful to external evaluators and internal viva examiner for their kind
suggestions to improve the quality of research study presented in this thesis. Thanks are
also due to Prof. Dr. Imtiaz Ahmad, Chairman, Department of Environmental Sciences,
University of Peshawar, Pakistan for her Sympathetic approach in my PhD program.
Special thanks are to Mr. Muhammad Tariq (Lab technician) and Mr. Bilal (Lab