{"book":"adl0973","page":155,"text":"know that the military force of Orgoon had\nheld out in spite of severe threats from the\ntribes and had not surrendered their arms\nand ammunition. He promised to reward\nthem handsomely for their sincere services\nand their brave resistance against such heavy\nodds.\n\nNext day the lashkar left for Sari Roza.\nRumours were heard that the Sulaiman Khel\ntribes meant to oppose their advance. The\nMarshal did not like the idea of effecting a\npassage through them by force, for that meant\nwaste of time and energy, and dissipation of\nforces. Negotiations per proxy,he knew, could\nnot solve the problem. He, therefore, invited\nsome of their leaders and personally talked\nover the matter with them. He had to\ndeclare his policy once more. He said,\n\"At such a critical time when the welfare,\nprestige and honour of our nation are in\ndanger, how is it possible for any one of\nus to think of his personal welfare or\nindividual interests. The present deplorable\nstate of the nation demands that all of us\nshould sacrifice our personal interests for\nthe national cause. Let me tell you plainly\nthat I am working neither for myself nor\n\n116","chars":1123,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00155.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/155","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/155","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."}}