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.
11,387 pieces by this author
A Pakistani vendor counts currency notes at his roadside stall in Islamabad, Pakistan, on December 15, 2011. (AFP/File) QR code-enabled merchants triple to more than two million in a year…
People participate in a rally in Tehran, Iran, April 29, 2026. (Xinhua/Shadati) Renewed military exchanges between the United States and Iran have put their recently signed memorandum of understanding (MoU)…
Representatives of the 31 founding member states pose for a group picture after signing the agreement establishing the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organisation in Shanghai, China, on July 16, 2026.…
Robots are seen at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center in Shanghai, east China, July 16, 2026. (Xinhua/Ding Ting) BEIJING, July 17 (Xinhua) -- Against a backdrop of…
The Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) has decided to begin large-scale drilling operations following the discovery of significant shale gas reserves in Sindh, the company's managing director said. Speaking in…
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday urged efforts to carry out search and rescue operations in a scientific manner after a mountain collapse struck a county in southwest China's Chongqing…
