The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) on Wednesday welcomed the United Nations Security Council's decision to include Daesh’s Khorasan branch on its sanctions list.

The UN said the militant group has carried out dozens of terror attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The new MPs of Kabul and Paktia provinces – whose results were announced months after other provinces – took the oath at a ceremony in the Presidential Palace on Wednesday.

Speaking at the ceremony, President Ashraf Ghani sharply criticized the former electoral bodies over delay in announcing results of the elections and said it was a crisis in its nature.