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Days of rogue spies are over, says President Asif Ali Zardari

President Asif Ali Zardari in an interview with The Sunday Telegraph on August 8 said that he now had full control over Pakistan’s intelligence services, which have long been suspected of lending secret support to militant causes, , reports Daily Times. Zardari, who is on a five-day visit to London, spoke out after talks on August 7 with British Prime Minister David Cameron, aimed at patching up damage caused by the latter’s recent remarks that Pakistan was involved in “the export of terror”. While his accusations caused personal affront to Zardari, Cameron was understood to be referring mainly to Pakistan’s intelligence services. But Zardari now claims the days when the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was more powerful than Pakistan’s elected leaders are over. “I think that everybody is completely accountable now,” he said in the interview. “The only people who need to have more room for understanding are the international community, who need to support us more.” “We are in a new era of democracy now,” he said. “The time that my wife was talking about was the time when nobody was conducting operations in the Swat valley or Waziristan,” he said.