{"book":"adl0973","page":49,"text":"send Ali Ahmad Jan, the Governor of Kabul,\nto cope with this critical situation. It was\ngenerally believed that as he had great\ninfluence in that part of the country he would\nbe able to tide over the difficulty. Affairs in\nthe east were at this pass when a new and\nmore serious rising broke out in the Northern\nProvince, a few miles to the north of Kabul.\nThis rising developed very quickly and\nultimately proved the death-knell of Aman-\nullah Khan's regime.\n\nBacha Saqao.—Habibullah, better known\nby his nickname of Bacha Saqao, for he was\nthe son of a water-carrier, was a native of\nKalakan, a village situated at a distance of\nsome twenty miles from the capital. He had\nhad his training as a soldier in an Afghan\nregiment called Qita-i-Namuna, but his mis-\nchievous proclivities soon obliged him to seek\nrefuge in exile. He went away to Peshawar and\nthence to Parachinar. Even there he could not\nlead a peaceful life. He was several times\nfined and imprisoned. Physically he was a\nstout square-built man, of exceptional strength\nand courage, which was so well-known that\nin a case of theft, when a large iron safe was\n\n20","chars":1124,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00049.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/49","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/49","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."}}