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Shama Zehra is Pakistani-American CEO of Wall Street firm Aligned Independent Advisors. Shama started her career as one of the youngest female entrepreneurs in the apparel industry in Pakistan in 1991 when she started a women apparel firm with her mother and sister. After building her family business to include a factory and three sales channels, she sold it and transitioned to financial services industry in 1995 where she has worked in Investment Banking, Consumer Credit Products and Private Wealth Management. Prior to forming Aligned, Shama worked with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Standard Chartered Bank (top 20 FTSE company) and MCB Bank (the largest private sector bank in Pakistan in early nineties).
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As the war enters 12th day, both the Israeli and the US militaries are using AI to accelerate decision-making, analyzing vast amounts of intelligence data for generating targets, and optimizing logistics, shifting toward AI-enabled command structures to maintain battlefield superiority. Almost all major US AI data center operators have signed contracts to provide AI tools and services to both the Pentagon and the IDF. This arrangement has not gone unnoticed by the Iranians who are…
ContinuePosted by Riaz Haq on March 11, 2026 at 10:25am
President Donald Trump joined Israel in yet another war of choice in the Middle East last week. Polls conducted in the United States immediately after the start of the Iran war show that the majority of Americans do not support it. A YouGov snap poll fielded Saturday — the day of the strikes — found 34% of Americans approve of the U.S. attacks on Iran, with 44%…
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