{"book":"adl0973","page":124,"text":"and helpless condition of the people in general\nand the capital in particular. He tried to\nmake them understand the impending national\ncalamity and asked them to join hands in\nگم کرده / exterminating the cruel regime. He emphasiz-\ned the fact that within the short period of\nSaqao's rule Afghanistan had been nearly\nruined; her trade was crippled, her credit\ndead and her prestige gone. She was on the بسیار نزدیک\nbrink of complete annihilation and nothing\nbut a united effort could save them.\n\nIt was here that General Shah Mahmud\nKhan got the happy news of his brothers'\narrival in India. He was impatient to meet\nthem and to know of the health of Marshal\nNadir Khan. He, therefore, left for India,\nbut he had not to go very far. In\nParachinar, he met his brothers. The three\nhad a long talk wherein the General gave\nall the details of the revolution, with its\nattendant horrors. Needless to say, the\nsad story of Afghanistan's pitiable plight was\na long and a sorrowful one and the Marshal's\neyes grew dim as one by one the terrible\nimplications of the situation were unfolded\nbefore him.\n\n87","chars":1095,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00124.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/124","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/124","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."}}