Agha Waqar accepts Physics teacher's challenge to run car on water

Waqar asks PPP MNA's brother Ranomal Malani to distribute prize money worth Rs5 million among the poor.


Web Desk August 06, 2012

Professor Ranomal Malani, brother of PPP MNA Dr Mahesh Malani, challenged Engineer Agha Waqar on Monday to run his car on water and get Rs5 million in return. Waqar, accepting the challenge, promised to run all his cars solely on water.

Holding a press conference at the Media Centre in Mathi, Malani handed a cheque worth Rs5 million to the press club administration and said that the cheque will remain with them for 15 more days.

Calling the ‘water car’ a fraud, Malani claimed that Waqar had fooled Federal Minister Khursheed Shah and the media representatives. He added that he was holding the press conference to save the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) from falling victim to a fraud.

Waqar, talking to Express News, asked Malani to tell him his car model and the number of cars, adding that he will prepare the car kits accordingly. “You will permanently run your car on it. It won’t be a test demonstration.”

Waqar added that he does not want to be “bribed” with the prize money and said that Malani should distribute that money among the poor.

Malani, in reply, gave Waqar 10 days to prepare the kits and run his car on water. He also expressed delight over not having to hand the prize money.

“He had hidden a Hydrogen cylinder in his demonstration on TV. He fooled everyone. I know it because I teach Physics. This is impossible,” alleged Malani. But Waqar claimed that he will run the car solely on distilled water and will not add fuel or anything else to it.

Waqar had earlier claimed that he can run a 1,000CC vehicle till 40 kilometres with one litre of water by attaching a small water kit in the car that separates hydrogen from water and supplies it to the engine.

Correction: An earlier version of the article incorrectly quoted Waqar as saying that he wants to be bribed. The error is regretted. 

COMMENTS (127)

ramzan | 11 years ago | Reply

waqar you are all the world sucesfull

1979 | 11 years ago | Reply

Every day that passes by that this fraud known as Agha Waqar is allowed to continue to fool the nation, my respect for this nation goes down. I cannot believe that there are enough people out there, many considering themselves scientists and educated folks, who still believe that there might be a chance that Agha Waqar might be on to something. Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy put it very eloquently, that this man is talking rubbish, has less understanding of science than an average school kid, and should be put in jail. Having seen Agha Waqar attempt to explain his theory behind the car, I completely agree with Pervez Hoodbhoy. What saddens me are the ignorant fools who add an 'inshallah' hoping that something true might come out of this. Wake up Pakistan! Stop expecting a Messiah to come out of the blue and walk on water (or in this case, run the whole country on water) , get off your lazy behinds and act to save your country from total collapse.

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