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NEC meeting of PBSA

The National Executive Committee of Pakistan Boy Scouts Association
(PBSA), under the leadership of Chief Commissioner Lt General Shahid, has
taken the landmark decision to drop “Boy” out of the association’s name to
do away with gender bias. The proposed name is Pakistan Scouts
Association (PSA). This is just the first step in the entire process of the
proposed change as it will require parliamentary and constitutional
procedures before it could finally take effect.
Another decision is to give seats to youth members as observers in
Provincial and National Councils, and at the next elections, youth members
will be given full voting rights

The National Executive Committee of Pakistan Boy Scouts Association(PBSA), under the leadership of Chief Commissioner Lt General Shahid, has recommended to the National Council to drop “Boy” out of the association’s name.

The NEC (National Executive Council) also decided to promote youth participants in to decision making, by as a first step having one youth previlages from each province observer from National council and youth observer to n

Date: 17/01/2010

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