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.
11,367 pieces by this author
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Uzbekistan is advancing plans for trade routes through China even as it continues promoting a future trans-Afghan corridor. The shift reflects ongoing security and political uncertainty affecting trade through Afghanistan…
An aerial drone photo taken on July 13, 2026 shows China-Europe freight trains waiting for transshipment at a yard of Suifenhe Station in Suifenhe, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. (Photo by…
A nine-member mountaineering team from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has successfully summited the perilous 6,050-meter (19,850 feet) Thalo Zom peak in the Hindukush mountain range. The expedition, sponsored by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Culture…
People walk past the booth of Qwen during the 2026 Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain, March 2, 2026. (Xinhua/Cheng Min) China is making significant strides in reshaping the…
• Mostly include Gandhara relics; Senate body orders detailed report on smuggling racket• Officials say Unesco concerns over Taxila conservation addressed; new museum planned Pakistan has repatriated 513 smuggled archaeological…
