{"book":"adl0970","page":95,"text":"60\n\nhe carried out successfully with the skill of a consummate general.\n\nAhmad Shah first of all, turned his attention to Kabul and Ghazni, held by Nasir Khan, who after the death of Nadir Shah had declared himself on the side of the Mughals. Nasir Khan soon found that he had made a great mistake in his estimate of Ahmad Shah's prowess. After a feeble resistance he fled to Peshawar. When he saw that even there he could not maintain his position, he tendered his submission to the Afghan King.\n\nAhmad Shah, following his success, crossed the Indus in 1748 at the head of 30,000 horsemen. He took Chhuch (Hazara) and Attock without much difficulty. He then marched to meet Hayatullah Khan, the Mughal governor of the Punjab. The Viceroy offered but a feeble opposition. He fell back precipitately and in great disorder towards the Mughal capital. Ahmad Shah, after taking possession of Lahore and other important cities of the Punjab, pursued the governor towards Delhi.\n\nMohammed Shah, the Mughal Emperor, on","chars":1011,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0970/00095.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":191,"title":"Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0970/95","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0970/canvas/95","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."}}