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LeJ co-founder Akram Lahori to be executed on Thursday

LAHORE: The co-founder of proscribed Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Akram Lahori, will be executed in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat Jail at 5 AM on January 8.

According to prison sources, death-row inmate Akram Lahori was involved in the killings of Imtiaz Haider, brother of former interior Minister Moinuddin Haider, and twenty four people in Mominpura.

He was also involved in more than 30 sectarian killings including

By OCTOPUS
January 07, 2015
LAHORE: The co-founder of proscribed Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Akram Lahori, will be executed in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat Jail at 5 AM on January 8.

According to prison sources, death-row inmate Akram Lahori was involved in the killings of Imtiaz Haider, brother of former interior Minister Moinuddin Haider, and twenty four people in Mominpura.

He was also involved in more than 30 sectarian killings including attacks on Iranian cadets in Rawalpindi and Iranian ambassador Sadiq Gunji.

Punjab and Sindh government had announced Rs. 5 million bounties for Akram Lahori respectively. Terrorist Akram Lahori has been shifted to the execution cell of Kot Lakhpat prison and will be hanged tomorrow.