Quetta, Feb. 3 -- A study found that 52 per cent of drinking water in Pakistan's Quetta is contaminated with high levels of fluoride, a hidden poison that is causing bone diseases, ARY News reported.

The research was conducted by Taimoor Shah Durrani, a PhD scholar and teacher at the Department of Hydrochemistry at Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences (BUITEMS), as per ARY News.

He collected water samples from atleast 100 tubewells in densely populated areas between 2022 and 2024.

The study's findings are alarming, as per ARY News, with a significant concentration of fluoride detected in the drinking water.

In 27 per cent of the areas in northwest and central Quetta, the fluoride level ...