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Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan

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Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan

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

Pakistan: ML-1 removed from the CPEC framework

Project to seek financing from ADB, other lenders The federal government has disclosed that the Main Line-1 (ML-1) railway project has been removed from the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) framework…

China: The power of exemplary lives

Honor guards escort the July 1 Medal into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, July 1, 2026. (Xinhua/Zhai Jianlan) Not long ago, 85-year-old agronomist Zhao…

Chinese firm eyes energy investments

Shandong Xinxu proposes refinery upgrade, offshore exploration, and equipment manufacturing Federal Minister for Petroleum Ali Pervaiz Malik has met with Hou Jianxin, Chairman of China's Shandong Xinxu Group, to discuss…

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