INDIA INSTALLS WORLD'S HIGHEST PHONE BOOTH SOLDIERS FIGHTING ALONG KASHMIR GLACIER CAN NOW CALL FAMILIES, ARMY SAYS.(News/National/International) - Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | HighBeam Research

Byline: Reuters

SRINAGAR, India -- India said last week that it had installed the world's highest public telephone booth on the 20,000-foot Siachen Glacier in Kashmir.

The Indian Defense Ministry said that soldiers fighting to keep the last post of a disputed 450-mile Himalayan border with Pakistan can now phone home.

``The Indian army established a STD-PCO (subscriber trunk dialling-public call office) for soldiers in Siachen Glacier . . . it becoming the world's highest PCO,'' it said in a statement.

Hundreds of Indian troops are dug in along the 50-mile-long glacier where Indian and Pakistani troops routinely exchange fire. …