{"book":"adl0973","page":144,"text":"Southern Province during the reigns of Amir\nHabibullah Khan and King Amanullah Khan.\nThey had been given some lands in the Khost\nDistrict, but the southern tribes did not like\nto see them on their soil, and waited for an\nopportunity to drive them out. Now, when\nthe chance came, they surrounded these\nWazir refugees and asked them to leave their\nlands or be prepared for war. The Waziris\nwere not willing to give up their rights and\nthe danger of a civil war was hourly\nincreasing. When the Marshal was informed\nof this, he despatched a few of the influential\nchiefs to settle the matter amicably. This\nmission at last prevailed upon the Waziris\nto give up their rights and the contending\nparties took a solemn oath that thenceforth\nthey would co-operate with each other and\nwould relinquish their tribal jealousies.\nThere was a general rejoicing on all sides,\nfor every one was fully aware of the ugly\nturn that the affair might have taken. If a\nsingle bullet had been fired from either side,\nthe matter would have been beyond control\nand the Waziris of the Trans-border would\nhave felt obliged to assist their brethren.\n\nAhmadzais' Lashkar.—On the 21st of\n\n105","chars":1162,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00144.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/144","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/144","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."}}