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.
(下边有中文翻译,请继续看到底。 谢谢。) This year, Pakistan and China mark 75 years of diplomatic relations, established on May 21, 1951. The anniversary is not only a celebration of friendship; it is also…
(下边有中文翻译,请继续看到底。 谢谢。) The 9th Ministerial Conference on Women of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in Islamabad is more than a diplomatic gathering. It is a timely platform for the Muslim…
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