{"book":"adl0973","page":98,"text":"Wherever he went he was followed by one of\nthem. No real well-wisher of the King was\nallowed to approach his person, and if by\nchance some one succeeded in his attempt to\nmeet him, doubts were cast upon his loyalty\nand his words were discredited. بی اعتبار شد\n\nThe fort of Ghazni was easily besieged,\nthe enemy was cut off from Kabul, and it\nseemed probable that Ghazni would open its\ngates in a day or two. But every day that\npassed helped towards the demoralization of\nthis vast host. Important strategical posts\ncaptured after heavy sacrifices were soon\nafter deserted, clearly showing evidences of\ntreachery. Some of the loyal and experienced\nofficers and tribal chiefs such as Abdul Ahad\nKhan and Lala Abdullah Khan advised\nAmanullah Khan to quit the siege of Ghazni\nand march straight on Kabul through the terri-\ntory of the Verdaks, who were impatiently\nwaiting for his arrival. But the King did\nnot trust ; on the contrary, he sometimes openly\naccused them of secretly planning to hand\nhim over to the Bacha. These officers being شکست فاحش\nbitterly disappointed and checkmated every- خوردن\nwhere found it worse than useless to\nco-operate. The favourites now found\n\n67","chars":1175,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00098.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/98","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/98","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."}}