Willy Brandt, Imran Khan and Elon Musk
"Things we do in life, echo through eternity" so said the Roman General with a Kiwi accent in the movie Gladiator. I remember a photo of German Chancellor Willy Brandt on his knees with head bowed to atone for the mass murder of Polish Jews at the Warsaw Ghetto.
Brandt was an enemy of Nazi Germany and was on the death list of the SS/Gestapo. He had personally done nothing to exterminate the Jews in the Holocaust, yet he bowed his head in shame and guilt that fateful day in 1971.
I was a kid in 1971 and had nothing to do with the genocidal frenzy with which General Yahya Khan's military regime butchered three million human beings in the killing fields of Bangladesh. Yet to this day, I feel shame and guilt when I meet any Bangladeshi man, woman or child.
Imran Khan gives grand speeches about recreating the values of a modern Islamic state and its respect for human rights but I suppose the Uighurs in China or the souls of three million murdered Bangladeshis do not really count as real Muslims in his moral compass. So please, Mr. Khan do the right thing. Go to Dhaka, kneel and bow your head in shame for what the Pakistani Army did to their innocent victims. The things we do in life, echo through eternity and eternity is a very, very long time.
​I was honoured to select 20 family offices in the UAE and beyond in an investor syndicate that invested in Elon Musk's SpaceX. All my wonderful friends who invested in SpaceX, share my conviction that its satellite broadband internet access model will change the world and disrupt the multi-trillion dollar global telecom industry. Thrilled to watch the next Amazon and Google scale platform company to be spawned in the heart of Silicon Valley.​ Xanadu Rocks!​
Matein Khalid is the Chief Investment Officer of Asas Capital Management. He has 25 years of experience in international capital markets as an advisor to family offices and fund managers. He has worked for investment banks/hedge funds in New York, Chicago, London, and Geneva. In addition, he has been the CIO of a technology fund in San Francisco, a royal investment office in Dubai and a public insurance company listed on the DFM.