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.
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Musicians perform at a concert celebrating the 26th anniversary of Macao's return to the motherland in Macao, south China, Dec. 19, 2025. Titled "Morning Star Lilies Forever", the concert was…
Black storks forage at Mianman River in Jingxing County, north China's Hebei Province, Dec. 19, 2025. Black stork is a migratory bird species under first-class national protection in China. (Xinhua/Yang…
(下边有中文翻译请继续看到底。 谢谢。) The official visit of President of the Republic of Indonesia, H.E. Prabowo Subianto, to Islamabad from 8–9 December 2025 marks a defining moment in Pakistan–Indonesia relations. Undertaken at…
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Pakistan has assured full facilitation to Chinese FinTech giant Fintopia China for launching digital financing initiatives in the country, as the government intensifies efforts to attract technology-led foreign investment and…