NEW DELHI (AP) — India and Pakistan worked to reduce tensions in the world's highest battlefield Monday, as their defense secretaries discussed ways to demilitarize the Siachen Glacier.
Thousands of troops are stationed on the freezing Himalayan terrain, where more troops have died from the grueling conditions than from hostile fire.
The talks, scheduled to end Tuesday, are part of a renewed peace dialogue between the nuclear-armed neighbors that had broken down after Pakistan-based militants went on a deadly terror rampage in the city of Mumbai in 2008, killing 166 people.
The home secretaries from both sides met in New Delhi in March and agreed to set up a terrorism …
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