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" POLYGAMY IN PAKISTAN AND OTHER POLYGAMY IN PAKISTAN AND OTHER MUSLIM COUNTRIES   By   TANZILUR RAHMAN, Advocate, High Court of West Pakistan     To tackle with the problem of polygamy successfully a Muslim, at the first instance, has to turn to Holy Quran for inspiration and guidance. The verse dealing with the problem of polygamy, lays down that the husbands have the option of having (upto) four wives at a time, provided they possess the capacity of dealing out justice evenly amongst them.   The second part of the verse:   directs a Muslim, in case of his being apprehensive of not being able to deal out justice and maintain equality among his wives, to be content with one only.   Only a `leave'   It is a `leave' with limitations put to it. In the face of this direction, one has to ponder whether polygamy, in an unrestricted manner, should be allowed in Pakistan and, for the matter of that, in other parts of the Muslim world.   Dealing out justice and maintaining equality of treatment among the co -wives, are conditions precedent to having more than one wife at a time. The conditions imposed make polygamy beyond the reach of the Muslims of Pakistan, in general. In their daily conduct the Muslims have so deteriorated that the fear of God and the idea of mutual obligations have almost become extinct in them. Such Muslims are undoubtedly expected to misuse the option of polygamy granted to them by religion. They are expected to neglect criminally one wife in preference to the other. A polygamous family, under the circumstances, would present an unhappy picture altogether different from the one envisaged by the Holy Quran. The existing wife or wives would, invariably, be neglected and children from them would be devoid of…