{"book":"adl0973","page":250,"text":"nation of Afghanistan unto God\nthe Great so that under the\nshadow of the holy Laws of the\nProphet Mohammad (may bless-\nings and peace be on him)\nthey may render high and\nespecial services to this holy\nland of Islam and once again\nglorify the religion of God and\nto assist in the advancement and\nprogress of Afghanistan.\nMy beloved people! may God be\npraised, that we see Afghanistan\nonce again emerging safe and\nsound from the difficulties and\ndistress born of dissensions and\ncivil wars. With mind at ease\nand heart full of hope I begin to\nlay the foundation of this In-\nstitution of National Counsellors\nand proceed to explain to you\nthe meaning of National\nAssembly. May God be praised\nthat you and I are Musalmans.\nConferences are the foundation\nof all our actions. By the in-\njunctions of the Holy Quran we\n\n193\nM","chars":818,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00250.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/250","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/250","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."}}