Dr. Kimat Gul Khatak
- Islamic Council of New England – President
- Baitus Saleem Inc – President
- Islamic Society of Western Massachusetts
(413) 532-9088 (H), (413) 530-7022 (C),
kkhatak@aol.com
Kimat Gul Khatak
Dr. Kimat Khatak, a ISWM member who practices just one office away from Bajwa in Holyoke, is among those helping to organize relief efforts. Khatak is a trustee of the Association of Physicians of Pakistani Descent of North America which is preparing an emergency relief team to go to the region to help.
Address: 10 Hospital Drive, Suite 311
Holyoke, MA 01040
Dr. Khatak is also the President of his own profitable non-profit mosque, Baitus Salaam Inc.
Left to right are Rizwan Mirza-Spiritual Leader at Baitus Salaam, Dr. Kimat Khatak-President Baitus Salaam and Baitus Salaam member Mohammad Awan at a celebration for the end of Ramadan at Look Park Sunday.
605 Dickinson St
Springfield, MA 01108-3167
(413) 734-7526
- President : Dr Kimat Khatak
- Vice President : Wajid Mahmood
- Secretary : Farid Farooqui
- Treasurer : Zahid Farooqui
- Director : Mohd Basheer
NOTES AND QUOTES
“There is no clash of civilizations. A jihad has not been fought in 500 years,” said the Pakistan-born Khatak, referring to the war against the Christian crusades. “I have been here 36 years, and all I do is take care of sick people in America. I love my patients and my patients love me.”
Personal connections
Hanging on the wall in Khatak’s office is a framed color photo of his parents. His mother is dead, he said, but his father, now 93, still lives in Pakistan, as do five of his sisters, two brothers, and about 40 nieces and nephews. He talks to many of them frequently, he said.
All are safe, but everyone fears that more trouble, in the way of more rains, food shortages and spiraling prices, is coming, he said. From his relatives, he has heard stories of collapsed mud homes and villagers searching for refuge, he said.
Khatak, who left Pakistan in 1974, said he is also involved with the Association of Physicians of Pakistani Descent of North America.
Dr. Kimat Gul Khatak (with hand up) of Holyoke is know for his relaxed bedside manner. Here he protests for Islamic causes at a Boston peace march.
QUOTES
“The immigration process is very insulting as I would sit hours while every little piece is gone over in my suitcase and in my checkbook,” said Khatak. “For a Muslim, they check you in every way just short of a rectal exam even if you have been through the airport 100 times.”
“Every year on the anniversary it is repeated over and over in the media that Muslims are evil,” Khatak said. “Images of a mosque and the call for prayers – prayers that are about God is great and that prayer is good for you – are shown and then images of fire and deaths.”
“It gets in the subconscious that the call for prayer is a call for murder and that we are bad people and people think it is true,” Khatak added. “They look at you like you are a strange person.”
“There is no clash of civilizations. A jihad has not been fought in 500 years,” said the Pakistan-born Khatak, referring to the war against the Christian crusades. “I have been here 36 years, and all I do is take care of sick people in America. I love my patients and my patients love me.”
Kimat Gul Khatak, Cardiology, Boston MA, USA
Phone: (P) 413-532-2584, (F) 413-535-1123
Specialty: Cardiology Board Certified: Eligible
Education: Liaquat Medical College, Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan
Residency: Rotating & Internal Medicine-Westchester County Medical Center, Valhalla, NY
Memberships: American Medical Association
Leadership: CCU Committee, Blood Transfusion Committee
Family: Wife and 4 children
Hobbies: Sports, Religion Studies
Sind Medical College, University Of Karachi – Graduated: 1962
Graduation – 1963
Medical School – Liaquat Med Coll, Univ Of Sind, Jamshoro, Pakistan
