{"book":"adl0973","page":94,"text":"Slowly, the Kandaharis began to mobilize.\nLevies from Farah and Herat answered\nthe call. Abdul Ahad Khan, a Verdak\nChief and the present President of the\nNational Assembly was sent towards Ghazni\nat the head of the first detachment to stop\nthe advance of the Bacha's forces, who\nhad by this time succeeded in breaking\nthrough the Verdak tribes, and were marching\non Ghazni.\nThe Bacha, it will be remembered, had\nafter occupying Kabul, concentrated his\nwhole attention on the east, where Ali Ahmad\nJan, his formidable rival, was busy in making\ngreat preparations for an attack on the\ncapital. He had nothing to fear from the\nex-King; he knew his weaknesses and the\ngeneral hatred of the people for him. Besides,\nKandahar was a month's journey from Kabul,\nand now that the snow was knee-deep,\nthe Kandahar-Kabul Road was blocked;\nthere was no reason to apprehend an\nattack from that quarter. So he was content\nto send small detachments towards Ghazni,\nand station the major portion of his army\nat But-Khak to meet the onslaught of Ali حمله\nAhmad Jan's men. After the collapse of\n\n63","chars":1080,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00094.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/94","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/94","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."}}