{"book":"adl0973","page":267,"text":"complete control in the southern\nregions. They captured Gardez\nand occupied many parts of\nKhost, Orgoon, etc. At that\ntime I thought to seek the\nhelp of the Afghan tribes in the\nindependent territory. I wanted\nto get support from the Orakzai\ntribe. At that time the path of\nnegotiations between me and\nthe Orakzais was in the hands\nof the British. Through Haji\nMohammad Akbar Khan I\nentered into negotiations with\nthe British Government. But\nthe latter did not agree. They\nadduced their neutrality as\ntheir excuse and pointed out\nthat to allow the Orakzais to\ngo over to me would be a\ncontravention of their declara-\ntion of neutrality and the British\nwrote to me a letter to this\neffect, which letter to this day\nis with me. I was not dis-\nheartened over all this. I\ndid not refrain from my\n\n204","chars":796,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00267.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/267","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/267","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."}}