{"book":"adl0973","page":50,"text":"stolen near Parachinar, he was easily traced\nas the thief, because it was thought that none\nother than Bacha could have removed the\nsafe. When this man learnt of the general\ndiscontent of the people against the Govern-\nment, he thought the opportunity was too\ngood to be lost. Accordingly, he went back\nto his village and gathered a number of\nnotorious bandits around him. Taking\nadvantage of the ignorance and the spirit of\ntreachery prevailing among Government\nofficials, he infested the roads, plundered\ncaravans and robbed wealthy merchants, some\nof whom he took away with himself to\nthe hills and held to ransom. در بد خون بها Government\nofficials were indifferent spectators of the\ndrama; some of them had a share in the\nplunder; others, from want of experience, were\nincapable of realizing the danger of the situa-\ntion or dealing with it in a satisfactory manner.\nسطحی The lip-loyal courtiers deceived the King even\nاین موقع at this juncture. They kept him in ignorance\nof the true state of affairs and minimized the\ndanger. Some of them were secretly in\nleague with Bacha and helped him with arms\nand money. They advised the King to send\nonly small detachments of troops which were\n\n21","chars":1194,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00050.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/50","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/50","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."}}