{"book":"adl0973","page":285,"text":"which can be imagined for\nAfghanistan,—and I always\nrecommend its continuance,—\nis this : that Afghanistan should\nobserve neutrality and with\nregard to her neighbours and\nall the friendly States should\nmaintain relations based on such\na process and method as may\nnot be inimical to the interest\nof Afghanistan and that she\nshould give practical assurance\nto her neighbours, that Afghan\nistan will hold the balance\nperfectly even with regard to the\nequal status of her neighbours\nand that she will hold on to\nthe same policy. And it is just\nthis policy which is the most\nwholesome, both for Afghanistan\nand for the neighbours of\nAfghanistan.\nAs regards the Independent Frontier\nTribes, let not this problem, too,\nremain untouched. For the\nquestion of Independent Terri\ntory is a question of equal\n\n216","chars":800,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00285.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/285","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/285","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."}}