{"book":"adl0970","page":151,"text":"110\n\nwhile Prince Haidar, the governor, sought sanctuary\nat the tomb of Ahmad Shah Durrani.\n\nEncouraged by these successes, Mahmud and\nFateh Khan pushed on towards the capital. At\nthis time Zaman Shah was busy with his pre-\nparations for another invasion of India. Hearing\nthe sad plight of his garrison at Kandahar, he\ngave up these plans and decided to turn his\nimmediate attention to this side.\n\nBefore leaving Peshawar, Zaman Shah com-\nmitted a serious mistake, which precipitated his\nfall. Abdullah Khan Alokozai, the governor of\nKashmir, who had come to meet him, was impri-\nsoned and tortured. Saidal Khan, the victim's\nbrother, who was then at Kandahar, with a view\nto avenge his brother's torture, went over to\nMahmud with all the members of his clan.\nZaman, attaching little importance to the fate\nof Kanadhar and subsequent events, sent fifteen\nthousand of his soldiers to Kashmir, which had\ntaken up arms against him. Then leaving the\nmajor portion of his army at Peshawar, under\nhis full-brother, Shujaul Mulk, Zaman Shah left\nfor Kabul with a small contingent. On reaching","chars":1086,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00151.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/151","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/151","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0970/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0970_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."}}