WASHINGTON - Three years before Pakistani terrorists struck Mumbai in 2008, federal agents in New York City investigated a tip that David Coleman Headley was training in Pakistan with Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), according to an investigative report.

LONDON - NATO-led forces facilitated the passage of a senior Taliban commander to Kabul to hold talks with the Afghan government, a media report said Friday.

ISLAMABAD - Taliban militants killed five soldiers Friday at a checkpost in Pakistan's South Waziristan region, hours after a rebel commander was killed in a US drone attack, Xinhua reported.

KATHMANDU - A top UN envoy who visited Nepal earlier this month to assess the republic's halted peace process has expressed doubts if the political parties can decide the fate of the Maoist guerrilla army by mid-January, after which the UN agency supervising it will exit Nepal.