{"book":"adl0973","page":15,"text":"vi\n\nand his brothers in achieving this end. This\nwas necessary, for it is by their labours that\nthe exhausted and war-weary tribes of\nAfghanistan have been transformed within a\nsurprisingly short period into a living and\npowerful nation.\n\nA cursory glance at the present condition\nof Afghanistan suffices to show that the\ncountry has not only recovered from the\nsevere set-back sustained by internecine war;\nbut is also advancing rapidly in social and\neconomic spheres. Never before has the\ncountry been so justly and efficiently governed.\nEmbezzlement and bribery, so common before\namong officials of all ranks, are now seldom\nheard of. The people are happy and con-\ntented. After several years of stress and\nstrain they are now able to enjoy perfect\npeace and to look forward to a bright future.\n\nIt is not my purpose to vindicate any\nparty. My object is merely to state the facts\nwhich, however, are so refreshing that a\nmere recital of them, without comments,\nwould be a source of no small satisfaction to\nthe well-wishers of the country. So quickly\nhave the damages been repaired that one who","chars":1097,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00015.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/15","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/15","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."}}