{"book":"adl0973","page":258,"text":"the very first day, by the grace\nof God on this occasion when\npeace prevails all over Afghan-\nistan I am enabled to inaugurate\nsuch an Assembly. When you\nread the little guide to the Nation-\nal Assembly you will know what\ndifference there is between an\nAssembly of to-day and the jirgas\nof old. If you exercise properly\nyour rights and watch the\nproceedings of the Government\nand make attempts at improving\nthe National Assembly of\nAfghanistan the same will be-\ncome the moulder of peace and\nthe foundation of the prosperity\nand the advancement of the\ncountry; and I have hopes in\nGod the High that civil wars\nand dissensions and disputes will\ndisappear for ever from this\nmotherland of ours and personal\nquestions will no longer be the\ncause of the downfall and the\nruin of this Islamic land. And\nthis country will ever remain\n\n197","chars":832,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00258.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/258","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/258","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."}}