A large group of Kabul-based NGOs wants NATO to expand its role in Afghanistan. Otherwise, they say, aid workers will be forced to withdraw from the country completely. A few key actors argue that such lobbying is tantamount to taking sides in the conflict, and compromises the neutrality of humanitarian NGOs.

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