Polygamy has long been widespread in the Pashtun societies of Afghanistan and Pakistan, where women have traditionally had little say in who or when they marry.

Many of the countries that permit polygamy have Muslim majorities, and the practice is rare in many of them. Fewer than 1% of Muslim men live with more than one spouse in Afghanistan, Pakistan, ...

Polygamy, stoning of adulterers, ... A proposed new law in Afghanistan remains a threat to women in a society where 87 percent have experienced violence and only 2 percent own land.

Shocking stat: After decades of war, Afghanistan has more women than men, which some argue contributes to the practice. In the world’s largest Muslim-majority country, polygamy is legal but ...

Afghan women attending a school after the fall of the Taliban. Credit: USAID Education Opposition within Afghanistan to girls’ participation in education predates the Taliban. Historically ...

Afghan musician Farida Tarana's new song, Group Sex, in which she criticizes polygamy and Taliban restrictions on women, has caused an uproar in Afghanistan since it was released three months ago.

FEW South Sudanese see a link between their country’s horrific civil war and polygamy. Instead they blame greedy politicians or the tribe next door. Fair enough: corruption, weak institutions ...

Polygamy has long been widespread in the Pashtun societies of Afghanistan and Pakistan, where women have traditionally had little say in who or when they marry.

The leader of the Taliban in Afghanistan has issued a decree urging the group's leaders and commanders to forego taking multiple wives, which he said was inviting "criticism from our enemies ...

Muslim men can be permitted by religion to have up to four wives at a time and polygamy is still legal in Afghanistan, Pakistan and some other predominantly Muslim nations. But Taliban sources ...