Just kidding. I'd say that there are 3 big similarities between the characters:
(a) they're both people who everyone nearby should want to subdue and send to an AS. That's actually tame - I think they both scream "DF,"but the AS could question and then Heal.

Maseema is so unstable that I never bought people following him (Is Ghealdan called "the gullible land?". Aram's had a glowing neon "bad guy" sign since the first time he met with Perrin, snd he was just a peaceful jerk in tEotW. Then Aram changed to be so damn creepy; maybe RJ was into emocore?

(b) they're both people with unhealthy "SWF" or "Fatal Attraction"-style obsessions for other people. In some ways, this suggests that they have serious dependence issues (or hate themselves, thus the focus on others). Given the people they clung to, it's possible that they have a need for attention, or a need to make everything about themselves.

If Rand is lucky, he will do something really nice for the world, but Maseema just does what he likes. Both are obsessed in a way that means they would hurt their Idol for not living up to absurd standards. Actually, it's a bit worse than that, since Aram would hate Perrin for cutting him out of the action. If Perrin had gone on missions without him around, or retired to live on a boat with Faile, surely Aram would've gone bonkers. Maseema stayed away because Rand would clearly not be pleased with his gang of murderous raping thugs.

(c) they may both be simple non-DF whose lives took gradual turns fot the worse in the wake of tragedy; Even so, they still sucked (as people), and I wish they had an on-going place in the story.

I hoped Aram would find some redemption. I wanted Maseema to be placed on the business end of a battering ram so he could make a last contribution. Their isn't much "missing," save whether compulsion was used on Aram, and the name of Maseema's forsaken, but I would've liked some resolution to the failed Perrin-Prophet plot.

Those three things aside, I'd say I don't feel they are parallels. For all the similarities, they don't seem to track each other. I can't know more about Maseema did during X period by learning what Aram did.

I have to admit, I might love it if they were - I see two guys who never got called out for their likely Shadow-hood. Particularly in Aram's case, it's the most heavy-handed, ridiculuous, somehow-successful attempt to forcibly install oneself with a taveren.