His father took him on a trip to Pakistan. The police say it was a trap.

When Hira Anwar’s father dropped her every morning in college, she left her car and climbed the markets of public school 16 in Yonkers, NY, in the city of the county of Westchester where she grew up.

Inside, Hira would greet her director and catch up with her classmates, shared songs from his favorite group, Chase Atlantic, or Tiktok of singer Zayn Malik’s videos, that everyone knew that she had a particular crush because he was of Pakistani origin, as she was.

Then, a few months ago, something changed: when his father’s car was out of sight of the school, Hira, 14, would remove his hijab. The director of Hira has taken note and fears that she will be the victim of intimidation to comply, she withdrew Hira aside to register.

Hira said it was the opposite, according to her director: she finally felt free to express himself.

This freedom did not last long.

At the end of January, on vacation with her father in his hometown, Quetta, in Pakistan, Hira was shot in front of her father’s family home. Shortly after, his father, Anwar Ul-Haq Rajpoot, told the police that a random attack had taken the life of his daughter. But the Pakistani police now say that the shooting, and in fact all the journey, was a trap which he orchestrated.

In a frightening confession, Mr. Rajpoot told investigators that he had ordered Hira’s execution because his behavior was discomfort. Rajpoot killed his daughter, he told the police, because “Hira clothes, lifestyle and social relations” had shame his family.