{"book":"adl0973","page":161,"text":"Mohammad Hashim Khan, whose task was,\ntherefore, made extremely difficult. However,\nafter incessant efforts on his part, their\nleaders at last agreed to send a mission\nto the Marshal with offer of help. This\nmission from the east consisting of 130\nelders under the command of Mohammad\nGul Khan, the well-known Mohmand chief,\nmet the Marshal in Baladeh on the 19th\nApril. People from all sides flocked to see\nthem and learn their views on the question\nof the day. It was for the first time in\nthe history of the country that representa-\ntives from the two rival provinces forget-\nting their tribal feuds منازعات قومی had come together\nwith the object of combining their forces\nagainst a common foe. The southerners were\ngreatly pleased to see their allies and there\nwas great rejoicing on all sides. A jirgah\nwas held in which the mission submitted\na written document containing the views\nof the eastern tribes. The first few items\ndealt with the causes of the revolution, and\ntheir justification for taking up arms against\nthe ex-King. Then the situation of the day\nwas fully discussed. The document declared\n\n122","chars":1113,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00161.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/161","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/161","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."}}