Constitutional Executive Branch Judiciary Legislatures Legal Guides General Sources (includes LC Portals: Afghanistan)

CONSTITUTIONAL RESOURCES

• Afghanistan Embassy: Constitution of Afghanistan includes links in PDF to both the Pashtu/Dari constitution and an English translation
• Afghan Constitutions (Online Center for Afghan Studies via Internet Archive Wayback Machine) includes a description of previous constitutions; scanned images of constitution from 1964, 1976 and others, with a summary in English for the Communist Era Constitution
• Afghanistan Law: Constitution, Government, and Legislation (JURIST/University of Pittsburgh School of Law) constitutional summary with relevant links
• History: Constitutions of the Past (Afghanistan Online) constitutions of 1923, 1963, 1976, 1987, and 1990; in English
• International Constitutional Law: Afghanistan (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) includes an unofficial translation of the 2004 constitution
• Constitution Finder (University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law)

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EXECUTIVE ARM

• Afghanistan Government Website
• Afghanistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Bilateral Agreements (Turkey Ministry of Foreign Affairs) includes 1921 Turkey-Afghanistan Treaty in Turkish
• World Factbook: Afghanistan - Government (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• United States Central Command

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COURTS AND JUDICIARY

• COURTS: The Bonn Agreement called for the establishment of a Supreme Court; and a Minister of Justice; from World Factbook: Afghanistan - Government (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• Afghanistan Constitutional Commission
• Afghanistan Ministry of Justice

LEGISLATIVE

• GAZETTE: Rasmi Jaridh (Afghanistan Ministry of Justice)
• PARLIAMENT: Loya Jirgah [Grand Assembly]; non-functioning
• Collection of Afghan Laws (International Development Law Organization)
• NATLEX: Afghanistan (International Labour Organisation) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights

LEGAL GUIDES AND MISCELLANEOUS

• GUIDE: Multinational Reference (Law )
• Multinational Collections Database: Afghanistan (Law ) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
• Afghanistan Law Guide (University of Michigan Law Library)
• Finding the Law: Islamic Law / Sharia (Andrew Grossman, via LLRX) August 11, 2002
• FindLaw: Afghanistan
• ForIntLaw: Afghanistan (Washburn University Law Library)
• JURIST: Afghanistan (University of Pittsburgh School of Law)
• World Directory of Parliamentary Libraries: Afghanistan (Germany Bundestag)
• World Law Index: Afghanistan (Australasian Legal Information Institute)
• WWW-VL Islamic Law: Afghanistan (University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies)

GENERAL SOURCES

• Country Profile: Afghanistan () February 2005; PDF
• Country Study: Afghanistan () 1997
• Portals to the World: Afghanistan ()
• Background Notes: Afghanistan (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Afghanistan (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency) 
• Consular Information Sheet: Afghanistan (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Information: Afghanistan (U.S. Dept of State)
• Country Profile: Afghanistan (BBC News)
• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Afghanistan (U.S. Dept of State)
• Country Study: Afghanistan (American University Foreign Area Studies, via Illinois Institute of Technology) January 1986
• Embassy of Afghanistan, Washington
• Governments on the WWW: Afghanistan (Gunnar Anzinger)
• Human Rights in Afghanistan (Amnesty International)
• International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: Afghanistan (U.S. Dept. of State)
• NEWS: Portals to the World: Afghanistan - Media and Communications; Afghan News Channel; Al Jazira; BBC Pashto; BBC Persian; BBC Uzbek; BBC World South Asia
• U.S. Embassy, Kabul (U.S. Dept of State)
• World Factbook: Afghanistan (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• World Hunger: Afghanistan (World Food Programme)
• WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Afghanistan (Google); Afghanistan (Yahoo); Afghanistan (University of Michigan); WWW-VL Middle East Studies: Afghanistan (Columbia University); WWW-VL History: Afghanistan; (University of Kansas); WWW-VL Middle East Studies: Afghanistan (University of Texas, Austin)