{"book":"adl0973","page":95,"text":"Ali Ahmad Jan at Jagdilak, and till the\narrival of Sardar Mohammad Hashim Khan,\nthe eastern tribes being involved in internal\nwarfare, could give little cause for anxiety,\nand he could afford to devote his whole\nattention to other sides.\n\nFor the conquest of Kandahar, he did\nnot deem it necessary to send a very strong\nforce. He knew that the ex-King would not\nbe warmly received even by members of\nhis own tribe. Sher Jan knew the ways\nof frustrating Amanullah Khan's plans. In\naddition to the treacherous courtiers, who were\nSher Jan's friends in disguise, all the powerful\ntribes living between Ghazni and Kandahar\nwere won over by the clever Chamberlain.\nBut he had a powerful enemy to crush\nbefore his forces could co-operate with\nthose tribes and march on Kandahar. The\nland between Ghazni and Sheikhabad is the\nhome of the brave and warlike Verdaks.\nLed by Karim Khan, Lala Abdullah Khan,\nand his brother, Abdul Ahad Khan, the\nVerdaks were in no way prepared to accept\nBacha as their King, or to give him free\npassage through their territory. Money or\nforce could not influence them. Several\n\n64","chars":1103,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00095.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/95","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/95","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."}}