{"book":"adl0973","page":158,"text":"of whom were Kohdaminies, who were the\nBacha's partisans. In Baladeh, the Marshal\ncalled a Jirgah of the southern tribes. All their\nchiefs were invited to this meeting. Invitations\nwere also sent to Mohammad Siddiq, to the\nGovernor of Gardez and to other influential\nlocal chiefs, all of whom responded except\nMohammad Siddiq, who had no desire to\ndiscuss such matters. But it was at this\ntime that Allah Nawaz Khan somehow\nsucceeded in making his entry into the\nGardez fort. He won over some of the\nchiefs to his side, and asked them to compel\nMohammad Siddiq to take part in the meeting\nand if he refused, to threaten him that they\nwould withdraw their help. They at last\nprevailed upon Mohammad Siddiq who was\nobliged to leave for Baladeh, but he took with\nhim some three hundred men fully armed.\n\nOn the 15th April, S. Shah Wali Khan,\nwho had left Khost by a different route, also\nreached Baladeh, where this heterogeneous\nhost manned from widely divergent and\nmutually inimical tribes was massed together.\nMohammad Siddiq, not slow to realize the\npossibilities of such a mixed army, succeeded\nat last in bringing about a clash among\n\n119\n\nمخالف","chars":1149,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00158.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/158","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/158","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."}}