For the Soviet-era Afghan gendarme police, see Sarandoy.
Da Afğānistān Sarandoy Tolanah
Afghanistan National Scout Organization
Country
Afghanistan
Founded
1931
Membership
34,000 (approximate)
Website afghan-scouts.org
Scouting portal
The Afghanistan National Scout Organization (Pashto: د افغانستان څارندوی ټولنهDa Afghānistan Sārandoy Tolena, usually shortened to Zarandoi) was officially founded in 1931 in Afghanistan by a royal decree. The site of Robert 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.[1] Afghan Scouting was formed again from 1964 to 1978 and recognized by the World Organization of the Scout Movement.[2][3]
^Michel, Rudi; Reinhard Schmoeckel; Hans Gerhard Rumpf (1963). Der Kornett Heft 5 Pfadfinderbewegung (in German). Minden: Bund Deutscher Pfadfinder Landesmark Westfalen. p. 51.
^"SCOUTING IN AFGHANISTAN". N2ZGU. Archived from the original on 2009-07-16. Retrieved 2009-10-01.
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