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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

A Tajik court found him guilty of polygamy and of driving her to suicide, but spared him a jail sentence and ordered him to pay a $1,300 fine. His family says it was unaware of any "second wife ...

Women of Afghanistan, it is time to go to the barricades ... surveyed 5,000 Afghans and found that 86 percent are against polygamy. Of the 12 reasons given for practicing polygamy; eight are ...

But Afghanistan remained a suffocating ... She fought for women’s education, and opposed polygamy and requiring women to wear hijabs. Another figure embodies Gawharshad Begum, a powerful ...

Her mother, Nozanin Bobieva, says the man beat Khudoinazarova and told her to "go and complain to whomever you want." A Tajik court found him guilty of polygamy and of driving her to suicide, but ...

In Afghanistan, Pakistan and other Muslim nations, polygamy is still legal and men are able to have multiple wives, but often have to pay money to the woman's family to secure her hand in marriage.