Chief Scout of Pakistan Message on world scout day 2012

Chief Scouts Pakistan urges scouts to work for peace.
Islamabad—President Asif Ali Zardari has called upon scouts to help tackle the situation arising out of extremism and intolerance and work for the creation of harmony and peace in society.

In his message on Scouts Day, President Zardari, who is Chief Scout of Pakistan, said scouting is an international movement which nourishes spiritual, mental, physical and social capabilities of the youth through informal education and instils in them characteristics of love, sympathy and selfless service for the humanity. It was first launched by its founding father, Robert Baden-Powell.Today more than 28 million scouts are expressing their resolve to take forward the aims and objectives of their movement by celebrating World Scouts Day, he added.

He congratulated the scouts all over the world particularly the scouts of Pakistan as scouts movement has completed 62 years in Pakistan. He quoted Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, first Chief Scout of Pakistan who on the occasion of beginning of this movement said, “scouting values play very important role in the character building of our young generation especially their physical and spiritual development and make them useful and good citizen with a life of dis