{"book":"adl0973","page":39,"text":"and went into the pockets of officers, nobody\ncared to bring the offenders to book. Thus\nwhen the time came for active service, not\neven one-tenth of the enrolled strength could\nbe mustered; nor was this small percentage\nquite willing to fight on the side of its\noppressors.\nفرار از نظام - بغاوت\nThe fact that so many cases of desertion\nescaped detection shows that the Intelligence\nDepartment, if it existed, was no more than\na name. Even when Bacha Saqao and his\nmen were only a few miles from Kabul, the\nKing lay secure in the Arg (royal palace)\nfully assured that there was absolutely no\ndisturbance in the country.\n\nIn the Grand Assembly of 1928 held at\nPaghman when the King put forth his new\nprogramme, some of its clauses met with\nopposition. The King, however, solemnly\nبا وفاماندن promised to abide by the decision of the august\nمحترم body and delete the disapproved items.\nBut within a month the promise was broken\nand members of the assembly, greatly annoy-\ned, left the capital in disgust. No sooner had\nthey reached their homes than signs of dis-\ncontent and unrest began to show all over\n\n12","chars":1106,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00039.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/39","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/39","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."}}