{"book":"adl0970","page":177,"text":"134\n\nat Dakka, in the western extremity of the\nKhyber Pass, sending Azeem Khan and Maddad\nKhan in advance with 4,000 horses. The Shah\nsoon learned that Maddad Khan had turned\ntraitor and was in secret communication with the\nenemy. Whereupon Shah Shuja directed Azeem\nKhan not to proceed further until he came up\nwith his guns and the rest of the army. Mean-\nwhile, Maddad Khan, with all the forces at his\ncommand, left for Nimla, and informed Mahmud\naccordingly. Mahmud, who had been afraid to\nadvance further from Jigdalik due to lack of\nmeans, was encouraged by this news and pushed\non with confidence to Gandomak. It was here\nthat Maddad Khan came to see him. Having\narranged and matured their plans, he was allowed\nto return to Nimla. Shah Shuja learning of this\ntreachery ordered Akram Khan and Ghafoor\nKhan to lose no time in punishing the traitor.\nWhen they reached Nimla, they found Maddad\nKhan with his rebel force ready to meet them\n(June 29, 1809). The moment Akram Khan\nbeheld the foul treachery, he rushed impetuously\nforward upon the enemy and fought with such\nbravery that numbers fell beneath his sword.","chars":1119,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00177.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/177","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/177","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."}}