Local Pakistani doctor watches earthquake in his homeland

He's going to school to help the sick and the injured, but there's nothing one man can do right now to help his homeland. <br/><br/>Doctor Asim Maqsood is a student at the OU Medical School in

Tuesday, October 11th 2005, 12:21 pm

By: News On 6

He's going to school to help the sick and the injured, but there's nothing one man can do right now to help his homeland.

Doctor Asim Maqsood is a student at the OU Medical School in Tulsa. Most of his immediate family still lives in his native Pakistan. Maqsood is from the city of Sialkot, about the same size as Tulsa, and about 200 miles from the epicenter of this weekâ€™s earthquake.

But even there, he says there were collapsed buildings and some fatalities. "My father, he has like balance problem, so initially he thought it was his balance, but he said he could not have a good grip on the floor. There was shaking, everything was shaking."

Dr. Maqsood says he reached his parents on their cellphone and says all of his family is safe.