{"book":"adl0973","page":71,"text":"[Handwritten: وان؟]\ntheir battered position and to re-organize their\nscattered resources. One can easily guess\ntheir extreme disappointment when they\nheard the Saqaoists shouting in the streets\nof Kabul: \"Long Live Amir Habibullah, the\nServant of Islam.\"\nThe Bacha was not slow in forming his\nCabinet, which consisted of the following\nmembers :—\nHamidullah, his younger brother—Moin-\nus-Saltanah, Assistant to the Amir.\nSayed Hussain—Naib-us-Saltanah, Min-\nister of War.\n[Handwritten: رئيس تشريفات سلطنتى] Sher Jan—Chamberlain. He was by far\nthe ablest and cleverest of Bacha's\npartisans, and it was chiefly due to his\nefforts and those of his brothers, Ata-\nul-Haq and Mohammad Siddiq, that\nthe reign of terror lasted for so many\nmonths.\nAta-ul-Haq—The Minister of Foreign\nAffairs.\nAbdul Ghafoor—Home Minister.\nMalik Mohsin—The Governor of Kabul.\nMirza Mujtaba Khan—The Officiating [Handwritten: كفالت داران]\nMinister of Finance.\nOf these members of the Cabinet, four,\n\n42","chars":973,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00071.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/71","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/71","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."}}