{"book":"adl0981","page":84,"text":"America through the Exchange Office in\nAmsterdam, arrangements were made\nwith the Ariana Airlines, and mail for\nEurope and the U.S.A. continued to be\ndespatched three times a week. There are\nnow twice weekly deliveries of air mail\nbetween Kabul and Karachi.\nArrangements were made with the\nViennese 101 Office for the despatch of\nair mail to Kabul in special envelopes in\naccordance with the decisions of the\nOttowa Postal Congress.\nA 12 per cent. increase has taken place\nin postal revenues. On important national\nand international occasions new stamps\nhave been issued, including the 40th\nanniversary of Independence Day,\nChildren's Aid, the anniversary of the\nUnited Nations, the Red Crescent,\nPakhtunistan Day, Atoms for Peace,\nHuman Rights, the International Exhibi-\ntion in Kabul, and the visit to\n\nAfghanistan of the President of Turkey.\nAfghanistan's representative joined in the\nannual communications conference of\nE.C.A.F.E. and the International Tele-\ncommunications Union's meeting in\nTokyo. As a result of talks held between\nthe Afghan representative and the\norganisation's authorities, the Inter-\nnational Telecommunications Union\npromised to give a further assistance of\n175,000 dollars within the next three years\nto the Ministry of Communications. This\nsum will be used in the survey of com-\nmunications plans and for the School of\nCommunications in Kabul. The Union\nmoreover promised the services of a\nspecialist in the channel system, and also\ngave 6,000 dollars worth of equipment to\nthe Ministry during the year. The French\nS.F.R. Company too has presented the\nMinistry with some equipment for the\nwireless telegraphic system.\n\nBack view of the new 50 kW. broadcasting transmitter at Kabul\n\n81","chars":1714,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0981/00084.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":109,"title":"Afghan progress in the third year of the plan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0981/84","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0981/canvas/84","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0981/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0981_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."}}