If the PPP leads the next government, a peace pact with the generals is possible but the military men are bound to be nervous.

ECONOMIST: Heading for uncertainty

He concluded a peace pact with the old enemy, Microsoft, to ensure that the latest version of Microsoft's Office software would run on Apple's Macintosh operating system.

ECONOMIST: Apple

In 1940, when the Soviet Union was discussing the details of a peace pact made in 1939 with Germany (to be broken when Germany invaded in 1941), its Berlin embassy was short of linguists.

ECONOMIST: Valentin Berezhkov

Senator Rino Serri, who played a key role in the mediation resulting in the peace pact, said that Italy and the rest of Europe immediately wanted to renew co-operation and relations with Ethiopia, now that the war was over.

BBC: Horn POW releases delayed

The insurgents say the transfer, part of a prisoner exchange pact under discussion, is necessary for peace talks to proceed.

WSJ: Detainee Deal Stalls Taliban Talks

In 1994 Nato offered former Warsaw Pact members limited associations in the form of the Partnership for Peace programme, allowing them to participate in information sharing, joint exercises and peacekeeping operations.

BBC: Profile: Nato

On television one night, he got into a shouting match with Yossi Beilin, an architect of the Oslo Peace Accord, in the mid-nineties, telling him that the pact with Yasir Arafat had caused the deaths of sixteen hundred Israelis in terror attacks.

NEWYORKER: The Party Faithful