{"book":"adl0973","page":200,"text":"successes at Mohammad Agha, Allah Nawaz\nKhan was ordered to proceed towards Char\nAsia, which he occupied the next day, and\nhe was soon joined by the Sardar with all his\nmen. The Sardar now divided his lashkar into\ntwo parts. One batch under Allah Nawaz Khan\nand Mohammad Gul Khan was ordered to pro-\nceed via Sang-i-Navishta and Bini Hisar and\nhe himself at the head of the other division\nadvanced on Kabul by way of Char-Deh.\nHe had no difficulty in reaching Chehl-Stoon,\nabout two miles to the south of Kabul. All\nthe points of strategic importance near Kabul\nwere taken. The Bacha in the meantime\nwas not idle. He fortified the Asmai, Sher\nDarwaza and the Maranjan Hills, command-\ning the Arg and the city of Kabul; and\nall the members of the Marshal's family\nwere taken to the Arg and put into dungeons.\n\nاز گرسنگی تلف شده The Night of Suspense.-The panic-\nstricken and famished people of the capital\nwere too excited to sleep that night. Impa-\ntiently they peered into the darkness, intently\nlistening for the first sounds of the invading\narmy's approach; the consternation of the وحشت\nBacha and his men adding to their secret joy.\n\n159","chars":1141,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00200.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/200","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/200","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."}}