Lashkar-e-Jhangvi leader Muhammad Ajmal alias Akram Lahori was shifted to Central Jail Hyderabad from Karachi on Sunday. Lahori succeeded Riaz Basra as the chief of Lashkar, after Basra was killed in Mailsi, Multan, on May 14, 2002.Lahori is accused of killing Ehtishamuddin Haider, the brother of former federal interior minister Moinuddin Haider, and Pakistan State Oil managing director Shoukat Raza Mirza. He is also a prime suspect in the massacre at Mehmoodabad Imambargah, and the murder of Iranian military cadets in Rawalpindi. Lahori was arrested in Orangi Town, Karachi, on June 17, 2002.
Ahmed Omar Shaikh, the man convicted for the abduction and killing of US journalist Daniel Pearl and awaiting execution, and three of his accomplices undergoing life imprisonment, are also at Hyderabad Central Jail.