Hira was fatally shot by her father and an uncle on Monday night, several days after arriving in Pakistan on what she had been told was a family vacation, the police said. The authorities called her death an "honor killing" – the killing of a person by a relative or family member for bringing dishonor to the family.

Pakistan's police say a man who recently moved his family back to southwestern Pakistan from the United States shot and killed his 15-year-old daughter in a so-called honor killing after she allegedly