{"book":"adl0973","page":105,"text":"determination a thousand-fold for the time\nto come. This noble being was none other\nthan Marshal Mohammad Nadir Khan, the\npresent ruler of Afghanistan, and with him\nwere his brothers, Sardar Mohammad Aziz\nKhan, Sardar Mohammad Hashim Khan\nand Sardar Shah Wali Khan. On his sick-\nbed he had been watching the course of\nevents in Afghanistan. Finally when the\nnews of Bacha's success reached him, he\ncould no longer suffer his state of enforced\ninaction and asked to be taken to Afghan-\nistan. Neither the doctors' warning nor the\npersuasion of the brothers was of any avail.\nHe was told that the constant anxiety in\nwhich he was living had done him no good and\nthat the strain of a long journey might imperil\nhis very life. But nothing could shake his\ndetermination. All that he knew was that\nhis motherland called him and he dared not\ndisobey. On a stretcher they carried him\nto the railway station. People shook their\nheads dubiously and very few hoped that he\nwould manage to reach his destination. But\nGod had ordained that through him Afghan-\nistan should be saved. In the following pages\nwe shall read how this bold and courageous\n72","chars":1138,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00105.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/105","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/105","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0973/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0973_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."}}