NEW YORK: Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif on Wednesday said that Hafiz Saeed, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Haqqanis are a liability for Pakistan.

The foreign minister was speaking at a session hosted by Asia Society in New York.

"It is very easy to say Pakistan is supporting Haqqanis and Hafiz Saeed and Lashkar-i-Taiba. They are liabilities, I accept they are liabilities. But give us time to get rid of these liabilities. You are increasing our liabilities further," said Asif

"Don't blame us for Haqqanis, don't blame us for Hafiz Saeeds. These were the people who were your darlings....20 or 30 years back. They were being dined and wined in the White House," added the foreign minister.

"You cannot divorce history from the present or the future."

The foreign minister also said that Pakistan should not be blamed for issues in Afghanistan. 

Earlier in August, the government extended the house arrest of Saeed by two months. 

He was also placed on the Exit Control List along with 37 members of his organisation in February, all of them were said to be affiliated with JuD or Lashkar-e-Taiba.

The Ministry of Interior had said it had "placed Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation (FIF) and Jamaat-Ud-Dawa (JUD) on the Watch List as per UNSC 1267 Sanctions and have listed these organisations in the Second Schedule of the ATA 1997 (as amended)."

"Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, Abdullah Ubaid, Zafar Iqbal, Abdur Rehman Abid and Qazi Kashif Niaz are reportedly active members of the aforementioned organizations within the meaning of Section 11EEE(1) of the ATA 1997 (as amended)," said the ministry.