{"book":"adl0973","page":180,"text":"and his men in the presence of a full audience\nincluding Abdul Latif. He told the Marshal\nthat although all their relatives in Kabul\nmight perish at the hands of the tyrant yet\nthis should in no way affect his programme.\nHe added that they would all prefer death to\nan ignominious agreement, detrimental to\nthe general welfare. The Marshal had once\nmore to repeat his previous message, which\nenraged the brigand ruler to such an extent\nthat all the members of his family were\nthrown into dungeons.\n\nAttack on Gardez.—Mohammad Siddiq,\nrealizing the weakness of the Gardez garrison,\nadvanced rapidly. Before beginning bom-\nbardment, he gave the garrison the\nchoice of unconditional surrender by 3 P.M.\nThe few men who were inside the fort\nwere in no way prepared to meet the\nonslaught of this formidable host. Sardar\nShah Wali Khan was at his wit's end.\nHe knew that there was no time to lose, the\nenemy was already knocking at the door. He\nheld a hurried meeting to discuss the problem,\nbut few agreed to fight. All hope was lost,\nwhen suddenly Abdul Ghani Khan, a brave\n\n141","chars":1074,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00180.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/180","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/180","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."}}