The Duties and Responsibilities of Ministry of Justice

The Ministry of Justice is an important government institution that works in close coordination and cooperation with the Legislature and Judiciary Organs. This Ministry with the vision of rule of law and ensuring justice in the country, has the duty of drafting laws and decrees of the president, drafting, scrutinizing and processing of legislative documents, implementing the recommendations of the conventions, which Afghanistan has acceded to, printing and publishing legislative documents, symbols and trademarks in the official gazette, rehabilitation and education of the delinquent juveniles, addressing legal claims of citizens, implementing the final verdicts of courts in the legal and civil cases, defending public properties in courts, providing free legal services to the destitute accused persons, providing legal awareness, peruse and processing of application for acquiring/giving up nationality, registering and scrutinizing of political parties, social organizations, property dealers and petition writers, notarizing legal documents, and the responsibility of chairmanship and Secretariat affairs of the High Commission for Combating against Human Trafficking and Smuggling of migrants and so on.