Afghanistan said this evening that international donors had agreed to give the impoverished country more money for a longer time, despite pleas for aid from Iraq.
The Afghan Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani told reporters that he had warned donors on the fringes of IMF and World Bank meetings in Dubai that they would have to spend more to fight terrorism and drugs.
Several speakers at the meeting on Afghanistan urged the international community to expand the mandate of NATO's 5,500-strong International Security Assistance Force across the whole country.
