{"book":"adl0973","page":174,"text":"at Charkh he made good his escape. He\nsoon joined the Bacha and advised him to\npursue the retreating lashkar, allowing it no\ntime to rally again. The Bacha and his\ncounsellors lost no time in turning this\nopportunity to their advantage. Mohammad\nSiddiq was at once put at the head of the\nSouthern Division, 15,000 strong. The army\nproceeded at a rapid pace towards Gardez.\nPassing the Altamoor they soon occupied\nthe White Fort facing Gardez, thus gaining\nan important strategic position. Mohammad\nSiddiq was himself a trained and experienced\nsoldier. When the revolution broke out,\nhe was at Gardez where he had been in\ncommand of the southern force for the\nlast five years. He knew all the southern\ntribes very well. He was not ignorant of\ntheir military skill, but he was also aware\nof their weak points, of their tribal jealousies\nand long-standing enmities, which he wanted\nto use to his advantage. He tried to find\nfriends and allies amongst them, and his\nefforts in that direction were to a large\nextent fruitful. The Sulaiman Khels and\nthe Dari Khels promised him full support.\n\n135","chars":1090,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00174.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/174","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/174","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."}}