The pay difference is making it harder to recruit soldiers to the 38,000-strong ANA, which has faced a much better equipped and funded insurgency since January.

• 军饷差距使得3.；8万人的阿富汗国民军自1月份以来的征兵工作更为困难，而它所要面对的是一支装备好得多、资金也充裕得多的叛军。