Si posava fi a les seves vides, el germanastre redimiria la família d'aquella vergonya ocasionada per les germanes i recuperaria així el seu honor o "ghai’at", com es diu en llengua urdú.
Apparently it had brought “shame” upon the family. By ending their lives with his gun, the step-brother was trying to wash away the shame his sisters had brought upon the family, thus reclaiming their honor or ghair’at, as it is called in Urdu.