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.
Customers experience smart glasses at the inno100 flagship store in Nanshan District of Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, Jan. 18, 2026. (Xinhua/Mao Siqian) For decades, Chinese families marked the Chinese…
Latest attacks come amid a widely condemned Israeli push to cement control over the occupied Palestinian territory. A Palestinian man inspects one of several cars vandalised by Jewish settlers, who…
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, responds to questions after delivering a speech at the "China…
Net monthly foreign investment in local debt hits $176 million as the rupee strengthens and sentiment improves Pakistan drew the largest monthly net foreign inflows into its sovereign bonds in…
Chinese Premier Li Qiang, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, inspects the Ministry of Emergency Management on…
New York congresswoman criticizes ‘unconditional’ US aid and calls for enforcement of Leahy laws Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said during a Munich security conference panel on Friday on the future of foreign…