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AIM

To give you the brief description of “Good Friday Agreement” and sol of Btn

issues

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 SEQ

• HIST OF IRELAND

• PERIOD OF TROUBLE

• GFA

• ISSUES OF BTN

• SOL

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 BRITAN, UK AND BRITAN ISLE

REPUBLIC
OF
IRELAND

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 HIST OF IRELAND

• Britan had ruled Ireland for hundred of years

• Partition of Ireland in two parts in 1921

• The 26 countries got independence from Britain

• The 6 countries were remain part of UK

• The N Ireland had a Protestant majority

• Ethnic biasness

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 MAP

North sea

North Atlantic
ocean N

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 POPULATION

THE REPUBLIC OF NORTHERN IRELAND

IRELAND

POPULATION 4.8 Million 1.8 Million

PROTESTANTS 20% 55%

CATHOLICS 80% 45%

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 PERIOD OF TROUBLES

• After division of Ireland ,Unionist were the ruling Gp in Northern Ireland

• 1960s the tension turned violent resulting in period known as the

Troubles(1968 to 1998)

• To deal with the conflict, the British troops were sent to the Northern Ireland

• IRA carried out deadly bombing in Britain and northern Ireland

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 GFA

• On Friday, 10 April 1998, British PM Tony Blair and

Irish PM Bertie Aheren signed this agreement and it

includes,

 Creation of Assembly

 The executive power had to be shared by parties

representing two communities

 The creation of intergovernmental council of the

British isle

 Demilitarization of N Ireland by Britain

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 ISSUES OF BTN

• Natural Resources

 The Province posses many minerals

including Coal, Sulpur, Chromite, Iron ore,

Barytes, Marble, Quartzite and limestone

 Btn has the largest reserves of Gold and

copper in the world

 In 1953, the natural gas discovered at Sui

area of dera Bugti

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 ISSUES OF BTN

• Education
• Btn is the least literate provice of Pak
• 78% of Balochistan’s youth is out of school
• The schools lacks basic facilities like no
toilets, no class rooms, no boundries etc

Balochistan Punjab Sind KPK

Govt
Universities 7 27 20 19

Private
Universities 1 24 29 10

Total
8 52 49 29

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 ISSUES OF BTN

 Poverty

 Btn is the poorest provice of Pakistan

 71% of the population of Btn are under the

poverty line

 The people are deprived from the basic

facilities like clean water, clothes, food and

houses

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 ISSUES OF BTN

• Factors of Insurgency

 State’s use of Btn resources

 Lack of socioeconomic developments

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 ISSUES OF BTN AND ITS SOL

• Power sharing and Provincial Autonomy

• Devolution of power

• Effective NAB

• Education System

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 Peace is not an event, peace has a process

which comes with a very long time

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