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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rhian Lubin

A ‘sweet kid’ from New York: American friends remember teen girl gunned down in Pakistani ‘honor killing’

New York teen Hira Anwar was murdered in Pakistan by her father and uncle, police said - (Instagram)

Hira Anwar was like most other teenagers growing up in New York. She was sweet, she used social media, she went to the mall, she messed around with friends - but only outside of class.

However, the typical 14-year-old American garnered international headlines for all the wrong reasons. She went with relatives to Pakistan on what she thought was a vacation. There, her father, Anwar ul-Haq, and uncle plotted and executed her in the middle of a street in a tiny town, local police said.

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