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Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan

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Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan

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.

11,434 pieces by this author

Major Challenges for Pakistan in 2022

Pakistan has been facing severe challenges since the 1980s, after the former USSR’s invasion of Afghanistan. History is full of challenges, but, being the most resilient nation, Pakistan has faced…

Diversion of Afghan funds – unjustified

President Joe Biden signed an executive order allowing $7 billion in frozen assets from Afghanistan’s central bank to eventually be distributed inside the country and to potentially fund litigation brought…

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