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Pakistan water-fulled car claims spark joy, worry


ISLAMABAD - Pakistani officials who have failed for years to fix the country's rampant energy shortages have latched on to a local engineer's dubious claim to have invented a water-fuelled car, sparking criticism from experts who bemoan what the episode says about the sorry state of the government.

Excitement over the supposed discovery has been fueled by sensationalist TV talk show hosts, who have hailed the middle-aged engineer, Agha Waqar Ahmed, as a national hero and gushed about the billions of dollars Pakistan could save on oil imports.

Several prominent Pakistani scientists have also jumped on the bandwagon, including the head of the government's top scientific council and another state-run science foundation.

The only catch seems to be that developing a vehicle that efficiently runs on water defies the basic laws of physics, detractors say. Critical Pakistani scientists say it is the car's battery, not the water, that's key to powering the vehicle. That has done little to dent the hype surrounding Ahmed's invention.

"Demonstration of water-fuelled car astonishes experts," read the headline in Dawn newspaper at the end of July after the engineer drove his vehicle in front of a crowd of over 100 Pakistani officials, engineers, scientists and journalists at a sprawling sports complex in Islamabad.

http://www.todayonline.com/World/EDC120805-0000032/Pakistan-water-fulled-car-claims-spark-joy,-worry