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==Early life and activities==
Lakhvi was born on 30 December, 1960 in the [[Okara District|Okara district]] of [[Punjab, Pakistan]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://magazine.outlookindia.com/story/let-it-be-known-this-is-lakhvi/239498 | title=LeT It Be Known: This Is Lakhvi | magazine=Outlook | location=India | first=Amir | last=Mir | date=19 January 2009 | accessdate=19 February 2021}}</ref><ref>''Computational Analysis of Terrorist Groups: Lashkar-e-Taiba'', Springer Science & Business Media, 2012, p. 31</ref> Belonging to the Lakhokay (village) caste, his mother is Maulana Moeenuddin Lakhviʹs stepsister,<ref>Don Rassler, C. Christine Fair, Anirban Ghosh, Arif Jamal and Nadia Shoeb, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep05591#metadata_info_tab_contents ''The Fighters of Lashkar-e-Taiba: Recruitment, Training, Deployment and Death''], Combatting Terrorism Center at West Point (2013) report, p. 23</ref> an Ahl-e-Hadith scholar and leader who died in 2011 at the age of 93.<ref>PTI (10 December 2011), [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/ampnbspJamiat-Ahl-e-Hadith-leader-Maulana-Moeenuddin-Lakhvi-dies/articleshow/11057581.cms "Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadith leader Maulana Moeenuddin Lakhvi dies"], ''Times of India''. Retrieved 31 March 2020.</ref>
In 1982, he would participate in the [[Afghan Jihad]], eventually becoming LeT's military chief.<ref>[[Praveen Swami]] (12 December 2009), [https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/Ties-that-bind-Lashkar-and-the-global-jihad/article16852900.ece "Ties that bind: Lashkar and the global jihad"], ''The Hindu''. Retrieved 31 March 2020.</ref>
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On 7 December 2008, Pakistani armed forces arrested Lakhvi in a raid on an LeT training camp near [[Muzafarabad]] in [[Azad Kashmir|Pakistani Kashmir]].<ref>{{Cite news
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