{"book":"adl0973","page":108,"text":"Commander-in-Chief. During the remaining\ndays of Amir Habibullah Khan's reign,\nSardar Mohammad Nadir Khan and members\nof his family, all men of great ability and\nexceptional administrative capacity, did their\nbest for the advancement of their motherland.\nIt was chiefly through their efforts that pro-\ngressive measures were adopted by H. M.\nAmir Habibullah Khan, and so wisely and\nconscientiously did this noble family work\nانجام دادن in the discharge of their duties that wherever\nthey went, and whatever offices they held,\nمحبوب they endeared themselves to the people and\nعزیز شد won a high place in their esteem.\nThe family continued to serve the\ncountry in the reign of King Amanullah\nKhan and never willingly withdrew its co-\noperation. It was due to their heroic actions\nin the Third Afghan War (1919) that the\ncountry gained its independence. Had it not\nbeen for the military achievements of Marshal\nMohammad Nadir Khan at Thal and those of\nhis brothers Shah Wali Khan and General\nShah Mahmud Khan at Wana in Waziristan\nand Paiwar Pass, the Amaniyyah Government\nwould long have ceased to exist. H. M. King\nAmanullah Khan was not slow in realizing\n\n75","chars":1158,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00108.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/108","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/108","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."}}