Major donors pledged on Sunday to give Afghanistan $16 billion in development aid over the next four years. 'Afghanistan's security cannot only be measured by the absence of war,' U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told an international donors' conference in Tokyo. 'It has to be measured by whether people have jobs and economic opportunity, whether they believe their government is serving their needs, whether political reconciliation proceeds and succeeds.' 'We have agreed that we need a different kind of long-term economic partnership, one built on Afghan progress in meeting its goals, in fighting corruption, in carrying out reform, and providing good governance,' Hillary Clinton was quoted as saying by Reuters.
