{"book":"adl0973","page":178,"text":"reins of the Government, it was impossible to\nsee peace in the country. You were, therefore,\ncalled upon to retire. You had the audacity جسارت گستاخی\nto refuse. Even now I am willing to give\nyou a chance, for I have come for peace,\nand have no desire to shed blood. Nothing\nwould give me greater pleasure than to\nrestore peace in the country, without recourse\nto arms. But I am sure that so long as\nan ignorant person like you remains on the\nthrone, the nation cannot enjoy peace or\nhappiness. You are not fit for the respons-\nibility that you have assumed, and no one\nis willing to accept you as king. I, therefore,\nonce more advise you to vacate the throne\nand to let the people have a king of their\nown choice. If, however, you are obstinate\nand crazy about the throne, you will be only\naggravating the existing troubles of the\ncountry, and I will be compelled to fight\nyou to the last. I am going to hold a\nsecond jirgah in the course of a day or two\nand the decision arrived at will be communi-\ncated to you at once.\nRegarding your threats to kill my relatives\nwho are now in Kabul, in case I refuse to\n\n139","chars":1112,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00178.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/178","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/178","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."}}