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.
China's National Meteorological Center issued an orange typhoon alert on Sunday morning after Typhoon Noul made landfall in south China's Guangdong Province, with maximum winds of Force 14 near its…
The Pakistani rupee extended its marginal gains, appreciating 0.01% against the US dollar on Friday. The local unit closed the day at 277.87, a gain of Re0.03 against the greenback.…
China's antitrust action against leading online travel service provider Trip.com Group on Saturday underlines the country's commitment to fostering a fairer and more innovation-driven platform economy, making it clear that…
Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal said on Saturday that the world is moving away from gasoline in transportation as the EV revolution has begun across the globe. “Around…
This file photo taken on Jan. 17, 2025 shows a view of the Taoyangli Historical and Cultural Block in Jingdezhen, east China's Jiangxi Province. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and…
EACH year, October 27 casts a long shadow over the Himalayan valley of Kashmir—a day etched in memory as the beginning of an occupation that continues to defy justice, peace…