 Kabul's acting mayor, Abdullah Nomani, says work to beautify the Afghan capital is underway. Nomani said he started working as soon as he was appointed the mayor of Kabul. The acting mayor said, though the work stopped at many places, but cleaning and maintenance of greenery, improvement and traffic control had been his priority since taking office nearly a month ago. He said they had cleared the barricades in the central city and would continue to remove barriers from different places in the city to maintain the traffic flow. The Islamist Taliban took control of Afghanistan last month, oisting a U.S.-backed government as U.S. and other international forces withdrew after a 20-year mission.