Afghanistan legal data from official sources, structured for AI and legaltech.
Afghan laws, regulations, and court decisions live across the Official Gazette (Rasmi Jarida), the Ministry of Justice, government ministries, regulators, and the courts. Lawstronaut structures legal data from official sources into one format used across more than 150 jurisdictions — with every record linked to its official source. Structured Afghanistan coverage is not yet live; Team and Enterprise customers can request priority onboarding of the sources below.
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Which law codifies general civil and contractual obligations in Afghanistan?
The Civil Code of Afghanistan (Madani Qanun) of 1977, published in the Official Gazette (Rasmi Jarida) Extraordinary Issue No. 353 of 5 January 1977, remains the principal codification of civil, contractual, property, and family obligations, drawing on Hanafi jurisprudence alongside civil-law drafting technique.
Source: Official Gazette (Rasmi Jarida), Ministry of Justice of Afghanistan — moj.gov.af
Illustrative — Afghanistan coverage is not yet live in the corpus; citation shown from the official source.
The official Afghan sources on our roadmap
Lawstronaut structures Afghan legal materials from official government, ministry, court, and regulator sources. Once Afghanistan coverage is live, each record links back to its original source, with metadata such as issuing authority, publication date, legal link, portal, content type, and version where available.
Source categories: legislation portals · government ministries and agencies · regulators · courts and tribunals · gazette and publication sources
- Official Gazette (Rasmi Jarida)
- Ministry of Justice (Wezarat-e Adliya)
- Supreme Court (Stera Mahkama)
- Attorney General's Office (Loy Saranwali)
- Da Afghanistan Bank (central bank)
- Ministry of Commerce and Industry
- Afghanistan Central Business Registry (ACBR)
- Ministry of Finance
Afghan legal source types we structure
Afghan legal coverage will include primary legislation, secondary legislation, regulatory materials, court decisions, guidance, enforcement documents, and legislative history where available.
Legislation & Regulations
Laws (qanun), legislative decrees and edicts (farman/decree), regulations (muqararat), and procedures (tarz al-amal), taken directly from the Official Gazette (Rasmi Jarida) and official publications.
Legislative History
Draft laws and parliamentary materials from the National Assembly (Wolesi Jirga and Meshrano Jirga) where available, alongside decree-based instruments, version by version, each tied to its source.
Regulatory Guidance & Enforcement
Guidelines, circulars, notices, and enforcement materials from Afghan regulators and agencies such as Da Afghanistan Bank, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, and the Ministry of Finance.
Case Law
Court and tribunal decisions from official and authoritative Afghan legal sources, including Supreme Court (Stera Mahkama) decisions where available.
One Afghan legal data layer. Four ways to use it.
Lawstronaut API
Query Afghan laws, regulations, court decisions, regulatory guidance, and enforcement materials through a REST API. Use structured metadata, full text, Markdown, source links, and version history to power legaltech products, compliance workflows, and internal research tools. Afghanistan coverage is being onboarded — the endpoint below is live and will return records as coverage lands.
GET /v2/contents?iso=AF&limit=20Lawstronaut MCP
Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, and other AI agents to Afghan legal sources. Questions become live searches against the corpus and return citation-ready answers grounded in official Afghan materials — deployable in minutes, with no integration work, once coverage is live.
AI Agent Integration
Give your legal AI agent same-turn provenance: it retrieves current Afghan legal materials — official source links, metadata, and full text — before generating an answer, with a citation and timestamp on every response.
Build with Lawstronaut
Build Afghan legal search, monitoring, compliance, research, and legal AI features without crawling, parsing, normalizing, and updating official sources yourself. We handle source discovery, ingestion, normalization, versioning, and change detection; you build the product.
What you'll be able to do with Afghan legal data
- Retrieve legal metadata, full text, Markdown, source links, and original source files where available
- Filter by jurisdiction, portal, issuing authority, authority type, language, status, and dates
- Access official legal links for citation and audit trails — citation, timestamp, and source link returned in the same turn
- Track point-in-time versions and article-level changes across Afghan legal materials
- Run Horizon Scanning — track what changed in Afghan law, when, and where, without manual monitoring
- Connect AI agents to official Afghan sources through MCP; use the API for search, monitoring, compliance, and AI ingestion workflows
- Build internal Afghan legal research tools without maintaining your own crawler stack
Why Lawstronaut for Afghan legal research
Afghan legal information is spread across the Official Gazette, ministries, statutory agencies, regulators, courts, and publication sources, and appears in both Dari and Pashto. For humans, that means slow research. For AI systems, it's a bigger problem: fragmented source access, inconsistent formats, missing provenance, and weak citation trails.
Lawstronaut turns those sources into one structured legal data layer — source links, metadata, full text, versioning, and API/MCP access. Your product or agent retrieves the legal source directly instead of relying on generic web search or unverified model memory. Every answer carries a citation, a timestamp, and a link to the official document — the provenance that makes a legal research platform defensible to auditors and regulators.
About Afghanistan legal coverage
Afghanistan has a mixed legal system that combines Islamic (predominantly Hanafi) jurisprudence, statutory codification drafted in a civil-law style, and customary law. Primary legislation has historically been published in the Official Gazette (Rasmi Jarida) by the Ministry of Justice, with the National Assembly — the Wolesi Jirga (House of the People) and the Meshrano Jirga (House of Elders) — as the legislature and the Supreme Court (Stera Mahkama) at the head of the judiciary. Legal materials are published primarily in Dari (Persian) and Pashto.
Afghanistan's legal framework has undergone significant discontinuity: following the change of government in August 2021, the 2004 Constitution was suspended and much law is now issued by decree, while many pre-2021 statutes — such as the 1977 Civil Code and the 2017 Penal Code — continue to be referenced even as their status and application are subject to change. Because of this, citations to superseded or outdated provisions can simply be wrong. Point-in-time data straight from the source is what keeps an Afghanistan legal research answer correct today.
Built for
Legaltech companies
Build Afghan legal search, monitoring, drafting, compliance, and AI research features without maintaining your own legal source pipeline.
Compliance & GRC teams
Monitor Afghan regulatory materials, guidance, enforcement updates, and legal changes across official sources — without a manual monitoring rota.
AI builders
Ground legal AI answers in official Afghan legal text, source links, and metadata — answers that survive an auditor.
Internal legal teams
Give lawyers and business users faster access to Afghan legal sources through AI agents and internal tools, without hiring a researcher per jurisdiction.
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Tell us which Afghan sources you need first — legislation, regulators, or case law — and we'll prioritise onboarding of official Afghan legal data.