Lakhvi was born 30 December 1960 in the Okara district of Punjab, Pakistan.[7][8] Belonging to the Lakhokay (village) caste, his mother is Maulana Moeenuddin Lakhviʹs stepsister,[9] an Ahl-e-Hadith scholar and leader who died in 2011 at the age of 93.[10]