{"book":"adl0973","page":165,"text":"to march towards Jaji where Sardar Shah\nMahmud Khan was busy in collecting a\nlashkar.\n\nThere was no time to be lost. The\nBacha had at his disposal motor cars and\nlorries and Gardez was only a day's journey\nfrom Kabul. The Marshal left Shah Wali\nKhan in Gardez and himself at the head\nof his lashkar marched towards Logar. He\nhad with him only two guns, four machine-\nguns and eleven boxes of cartridges. The\nfirst night he passed at Safed Qillah—the\nWhite Fort—at the entrance of the Tirah\nPass. In the morning Zalmae Khan, at the\nhead of his Mangali lashkar, left for Logar.\n\nOn the 24th of April at 9-30 in the\nmorning the Marshal and his brother left\nfor Charkh, a well-known place in Logar.\nHe reached the top of the pass at about\ntwo in the afternoon. Here he was informed\nthat some of the Bacha's men were encamped\nin Darvesh and more could be found in\nthe suburbs of Bedak or Charkh. At about\nseven in the evening he reached Charkh. Mir\nGhaus-ud-Din, the commander of the\nvanguard, on the pretext that he was not\n\nبهانه - عذر\n\n126","chars":1037,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00165.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/165","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/165","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."}}