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.
This photo taken on July 25, 2025 shows a scene at the plenary session of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Media and Think Tank Summit in Zhengzhou, capital of central…
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(下边有中文翻译请继续看到底。 谢谢。) The Gaza Strip, once densely populated and impoverished, now stands as a tragic emblem of one of the 21st century’s gravest humanitarian crises. 加沙地带曾经人口稠密、贫困,现在却成了21世纪最严重的人道主义危机之一的悲惨象征。 Two children watch plumes…
A memorandum of understanding signing ceremony between the Pakistan National Shipping Corporation and Shandong Xinxu Group Corporation in Islamabad on Thursday. The Pakistan National Shipping Corporation (PNSC) signed a memorandum…