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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Pakistan's trade deficit narrowed by 15.22% month-on-month (MoM) to $3.95 billion in July 2026, compared to $4.66bn in June 2026, as exports recorded a sharp recovery during the month. The…
(下边有中文翻译，请继续看到底。 谢谢。） Summary Over more than seven decades, the relationship has witnessed periods of close strategic cooperation, moments of mutual disappointment, and repeated efforts at rebuilding trust. Today, amid shifting…
Pakistan and Somalia have institutionalised military cooperation spanning counter-terrorism, professional training, and defence capability development, potentially expanding Islamabad’s strategic influence near the Bab el-Mandeb and vital Indian Ocean shipping routes.…
A Smart Dragon-3 carrier rocket, carrying Oriental Smart Eye hyperspectral satellites 01 and 02, blasts off from the sea near the city of Haiyang, east China's Shandong Province, Aug. 5,…
