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.
Chinese ambassador, Ahsan Iqbal recognise corridor's outstanding contributions The CPEC has brought a total of $25.4 billion in direct investment, 236,000 jobs, 510 kilometers of highways, more than 8,000 megawatts…
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Zheng Siwei (L) and Huang Yaqiong celebrate after winning the mixed doubles final at the 2024 BWF World Tour Finals in Hangzhou, China, Dec. 15, 2024. (Xinhua/Hou Zhaokang) China's Shi…
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), the flagship project of the Belt and Road Initiative, remains the cornerstone of economic cooperation between the two all-weather friends and brotherly countries. “Contrary to…
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