{"book":"adl0957","page":172,"text":"129\n\nExcept in the case of secret sessions, which are held under\nspecified rulings, the debates of the House of Representatives\ntake place openly, and spectators and press representatives\nare not barred from entering the House and hearing the\ndiscussions.\n\nThe Cabinet: The executive power is in the hands of the\nCabinet Ministers, who are nominated by the Prime Minister\nwith the approval of the King. The Ministers carry on their\nduties under the rules and regulations passed from time to time\nby the Parliament. The Ministers, individually and jointly,\nare responsible to the Parliament, and may be tried by a Supreme\nCourt for negligence of duty entrusted to them. In other\nmatters outside their official capacity they are treated like\nordinary citizens.\n\nInternal disagreements in the Cabinet may lead to the\nresignation of individual members and their replacement, or\nmay even cause the resignation of the entire Cabinet.\n\nThe present Cabinet consists of a Prime Minister (called\nSadri-Azam) and the following Ministers and Presidents:\n(1) Minister of National Defence.\n(2) Minister of Foreign Affairs.\n(3) Minister for the Interior.\n(4) Minister for Justice.\n(5) Minister for Finance.\n(6) Minister for Education.\n(7) Minister for Trade & Commerce.\n(8) Minister for Health.\n(9) Minister for Public Works.\n(10) Minister for Mines & Industries.\n(11) Minister for Posts & Telegraphs.","chars":1386,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0957/00172.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":377,"title":"new guide to Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0957/172","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0957/canvas/172","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0957/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0957_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}