Assessment of Selected Toxic Heavy Metals in Industrial Effluents and Drinking Water and Their Effects on the Vegetation and Nutritional Status of Peshawar
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2011
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INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL SCIENCES
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I consider it my supreme duty to offer my humble submission before Almighty
Allah Who enabled me to complete this work.
I feel great delight and happiness in expressing heart felt gratitude to my research
supervisor, Prof. Dr. Muhammad Ishaq Mohmand, Institute of Chemical Sciences,
University of Peshawar for his motivating and stirring guidance, devotion of time,
valuable suggestions and courteous behavior in completing this work.
I am fortunate enough to get kind Guidance in my research from my cosupervisors
Dr. Ihsanullah Deputy Chief Scientist Nuclear institute for Food and
Agriculture NIFA Peshawar and Dr. Sardar Khan Associate Professor Department of
Environmental Sciences, University of Peshawar whose dignified attitude with highly
specialized guidance, skilled advice, encouragement and wisdom made the completion of
this work possible.
I also express my warm and deepest gratefulness to Prof. Dr. Imdadullah Director
and Prof. Dr. M. Rasul Jan, and Prof. Dr. Muhammad Arfan ex- Directors, Institute of
Chemical Sciences, University of Peshawar, for their kind cooperation and placing at my
disposal all the required facilities, to complete this work.
I also express my warm and deepest gratefulness to Dr. Syed Muahmmad Asim
Department of Statistics University of Peshawar and Dr. Aurangzed deputy Chief
Scientist Nuclear institute for Food and Agriculture NIFA Peshawar for their kind
cooperation and advice when I needed.
I am also grateful to Prof. Dr. M. Shakirullah and Dr. Imtiaz Ahmad, Associate
Professor, Institute of Chemical Sciences, University of Peshawar, for their co-operation,
inspirational guidance and timely assistance. Very many thanks to Higher Education
Commission of Pakistan for funding my PhD studies and six month visit to UK
under IRSIP.
I am also grateful to Mr. Mohammad Ismail, Mr.Janullah Ph.D Scholars for their
assistance and help, back up and discussion through out my research work and in solving
my academic problems which I faced during my Ph.D studies.
Similarly I would like to show appreciation to my friends; Noor Zada, Hussain
Gulab, Attaul Haq, Fazal Wahid, Zafar Iqbal and all my other M.Phil and Ph.D
colleagues for their jovial company.
I am also grateful to Lab. Assistants Rehman-u-din, Sabaz Ali khan Institute of
Chemical Sciences, University of Peshawar for their co-operation in providing me the lab
accessories, chemicals etc.
I would like to pay thanks to the kind Librarian Mr. Aziz-ur-Rehman Institute of
Chemical Sciences University of Peshawar, whose timely co-operation enabled me to
fulfill my literature survey etc. on time.
Last but not the least I would like to thank my parents who helped me in every
possible way during this research work, and bear my absence from the home, adorn me
with their consistent Du