Afghan Scout Association: Difference between revisions

{{infobox WorldScouting | image = Afghan Scout Association.png | caption = Afghan Scout Association | name = Da Afğānistān Sarandoy Tolanah | country = Afghanistan | f-date = 1931 | members = 20,000 (estimate)}}

[[Scouting]] in Afghanistan was officially founded in [[1931]] by a royal decree. The site of [[Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell|Baden-Powell]]'s second posting in 1880, Afghanistan was a member of the [[World Organization of the Scout Movement]] from [[1932]] until the Afghan government dissolved the Scout Association in [[1947]]. Scouting was reestablished in [[1956]], named '''''Da Afğānistān Zaranduy Tolanah''''' (DAZT) and was readmitted to the World Scout Conference on June 1, [[1964]], having a membership of over 2,000 Scouts, both boys and girls and adult leaders. The [[Democratic Republic of Afghanistan|communist]] government banned the Afghan Scout Association in [[1978]], at that date with 11,212 members. By 1981, DAZT was no longer recognized by the 28th World Scout Conference, because of domestic disturbances that deprived Afghanistan of the democratic environment necessary for Scouting to continue.