{"book":"adl0973","page":147,"text":"of the national catastrophe, were bent\nupon fighting to the last. But their old\njealousies and rivalries would often create\ndifficulties. And the first problem to be\nsolved after the close of this Jirgah was\nhow to distribute arms among these tribes,\nbecause every one of them insisted upon having\nthe lion's share. Moreover, the behaviour of\na few clearly indicated that they had some-\nthing up their sleeve and were probably\nbribed by Mohammad Siddiq to delay the\ndeparture of this lashkar.\nBut the personal influence of the\nMarshal once more prevailed and the arms\nwere distributed in such a way that all parties\nwere satisfied with it. The next problem\nwas the line of action—how to proceed and\nby what route. Nobody doubted that the\nlashkar would reach Gardez without difficulty,\nbut the Marshal knew that some of the\ntribes en route would try to put obstacles\nin his way, so he proposed to take a route\nwhereby he could avoid their territory. Finally\nit was decided that the Marshal himself\nwith the Jadrani Lashkar should proceed\nvia Jadran, Sardar Shah Wali Khan at the\nhead of Manglis via Mangal and Shah\n108","chars":1117,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00147.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/147","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/147","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."}}