Global Silk Route Research Alliance
全球丝绸之路研究联盟
Independent Think Tank · Geopolitics · Belt & Road · Eurasia
Author
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.
11,346 pieces by this author
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Switzerland-based global energy trading company Gunvor Group has expressed interest in supporting Pakistan’s refinery modernization drive and expanding cooperation across the country’s petroleum sector. A Gunvor Group delegation comprising Global…
An aerial drone photo taken on Nov. 16, 2025 shows an offshore photovoltaic power generation project in the waters of Aoshanwan in Jimo District, Qingdao City, east China's Shandong Province.…
