The chairman of Pakistan's Council of Islamic Ideology (CII), Maulana Mohammad Khan Sherani has said that men need not take permission from first wife for another marriage.
According to Dawn News, Sherani said that people, in the name of women's rights, were creating anarchy and discontent.
He said that men can have up to four wives at a time, as per Islamic principles.
Sherani accused NGOs and some organizations, working towards human rights, of spreading unrest in the society by distorting facts.