{"book":"adl0973","page":273,"text":"importance in my eyes, since\nthe period of my life was now\nvery limited. I had determined\nto live with self-respect or die\nalong with my family. Certain\ninterested parties after the\nconquest of Kabul set afoot a\npropaganda to the effect that\nwhile I was in the southern\nregions the British had lent me\nhelp and that I had in return\ngiven the British certain conces-\nsions. To-day, in the presence\nof you, the Representatives of\n(اقرار و اعتراف کردن) the Nation, I avow that I have\nreceived no help whatsoever\nfrom any foreign Power. Only\nthe kindness and help of God\nthe Powerful and the loyalty\nof the people of Afghanistan\nhave enabled me in capturing\nKabul. To support my efforts\nto free my country, only the\nespecial Divine Grace and the\nشجاعت - دلاوری valour and the spirit of the\ngeneral Afghan Nation were\n\n208","chars":817,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00273.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/273","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/273","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."}}