FRANCAISAfghanaid - History
2000-2009
-2003, United Kingdom: like other NGOs in Afghanistan, Afghanaid, which transfers its offices from Peshawar to Kabul, is worried about the participation of reservists of the Anti-Terrorist Coalition’s armies in the Provisional Reconstruction Teams. Such confusion is apt to make true humanitarian workers pass for soldiers in the eyes of the population. While the British team in Mazar-i-Charif finally takes care to distance itself with the army, Afghanaid is not hostile to a military intervention as such. Along with Islamic Relief, Save the Children UK and Tearfund, it sends in July a letter to the British Defence Secretary, Geoff Hoon, asking for a rapid deployment of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) that NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) sends to Kabul a month later. With Christian Aid, these same NGOs also write in August to the Foreign Secretary asking for the ISAF troops to be extended outside the capital to the rest of the country.
