{"book":"adl0973","page":173,"text":"جاسوس ها - قاصد ها\nthe usurper at all costs. Emissaries were\ndespatched to all the southern tribes inviting\ntheir representatives to assemble in Sijinak\nto attend a jirgah on the 12th May. The\nresponse was encouraging. The jirgah, how-\never, sat for several days without arriving\nat a definite decision. They were divided\nin opinion, some holding that renewal of\nhostilities would be heading for disaster.\nBut on the last day of the jirgah the\nMarshal stood up to make his momentous\nand epoch-making speech. He depicted the\nhorrors of the day and the untold miseries\nof the people who were starving and suffering\nat the hands of the bandits. He called upon\nthe audience in stirring language to stand\nup for the national emancipation. Every آزادی\none was moved, fresh enthusiasm was infused\nin them and they promised to do their best\nin raising a fresh lashkar for the common\ncause.\n\nMohammad Siddiq Commanding the\nتوطئه سازی  Southern Division.—Due to his machinations\nدسییه  and intrigues Mohammad Siddiq, as we have\nalready observed, had been imprisoned. In\nthe confusion that followed the discomfiture\nشکست - هزیمت\n134","chars":1121,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00173.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/173","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/173","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."}}