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.
Under the very tense, volatile, highly polar, and full of controversies, conflicts, differences, and hostile environments, meeting between President Xi Jin Ping and President Joe Bidden is highly significant. The…
Exporting more agricultural goods to China is on the table, but structural barriers and a lack of technological advancements in rural Pakistan are holding back the industry new land routes…
Pakistan is passing through a critical period and the nation is required to unite against any internal and external conspiracies. The public should be more vigilant and smart. Leaders, policymakers,…
Please watch my views on the subject in the Program "NEWSROOM" on PTV World with Mr. Omer Khalid Butt, on 14 November 2022. Please click the link below:- https://youtu.be/xay4MQSHLIg