{"book":"adl0973","page":194,"text":"and other Muslim tribes of Central Asia\nswooped down upon the country from the\nnorth and within a few days was able to\ntake Mazar-i-Sharif and other important\nplaces as far as the Hindu Kush. Even\nSayed Hussain who was sent to oppose\nhis advance had to take shelter in Qataghan.\nBut at this time Ghulam Nabi Khan heard\nof the flight of the ex-King, and was so\ndisappointed that he at once made up his\nmind to give up the struggle. Collecting\neverything that he could lay his hands on,\nhe repaired secretly to Russia, leaving the\nnorth once more to the mercy of Sayed\nHussain, who did not fail to avenge his\npast grievances. The whole of the north\nfrom the Zulfiqar Pass in the west right\nup to Sar-i-Kul in the east was now in the\ngrip of the Bacha and his men.\n\nIn the east, Sardar Mohammad Hashim\nKhan was going from place to place asking\nthe tribes to give up their internecine warfare.\nHe had been able to restore order and\nto form a temporary Government whose\nseat was at Kajja. At last he collected\na small lashkar. It was sent to attack\n\n153","chars":1048,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00194.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/194","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/194","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."}}