Founder & Chair, Global Silk Route Research Alliance
Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad.
He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries. When he came home he set up the China Study Centre at NUST. He retired from there.
He writes about CPEC and the Belt and Road, and about what China's rise means for Pakistan. His articles run in Modern Diplomacy and on Think Tank Pakistan, and China Daily and China News Service have both quoted the work.
China announced on Tuesday a significant relaxation of its visa-free transit policy, aiming to further boost international openness and people-to-people exchanges. The National Immigration Administration (NIA) said the permitted stay…
The preliminary report mentioned that Suryawanshi's body underwent shock after suffering multiple injuries. Proving the activists’ allegations of police torture right, the forensic department in Aurangabad has confirmed that the…
* Over the past 25 years, Macao has transformed into a multifaceted hub, evolving beyond its moniker as the "Las Vegas of the East." It now seeks to establish itself…
Aamir Ibrahim, CEO of Jazz and Chairman of the Telecom Operators Association of Pakistan (TOA), has called for urgent reforms to address the telecom sector’s challenges ahead of Pakistan’s planned…
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, addresses the opening ceremony of a symposium on the international…
2024 has been a crazy year for new car launches. We got BYD, Deepal, GUGO, Honri, and many other new car brands as well as new car launches. Next year,…