India's government is trying to turn the world's highest battlefield into a "mountain of peace" with Pakistan, the Indian prime minister was quoted as saying Sunday. Manmohan Singh, visiting Indian forces on the desolate Siachen Glacier, said India and Pakistan were exploring the possibility of pulling their troops out of the frozen, dangerous area where their border is disputed, the Press Trust of India news agency reported. "Siachen is called the highest battlefield, where living is very difficult," PTI quote Singh as saying. "Now time has come that we make efforts that this battlefield is converted into a mountain of peace." Singh is the first Indian prime minister to visit the 6,100-meter (20,000-foot) -high glacier, where temperatures can drop to minus 60 C (minus 76 F). India-Pakistan ties have gradually been warming, and they have been holding talks to settle their dispute over the Siachen Glacier _ the scene of frequent border skirmishes before a 2003 cease-fire. "Our efforts should be that such an environment of peace is created wherein nobody feels any threats, and there is no scope for a conflict, and this place becomes an example of peace," Singh was quoted as saying.
