{"book":"adl1181","page":62,"text":"became the capital of a province. In the year 1151 A.H. (about 1772 A.D.) the invasions of Nadir-e-Afshar caused destruction of the city and massacre of its population. When the reins of power came into the hands of king, Ahmad Shah Baba (Ghazi), he in the year 1160 A.H. turned his attention towards Kabul to make it the centre of his state. After his death in the year 1186 A.H. Timur Shah ascended the throne. In the year 1190 A.H. after arranging affairs at Kandahar he formally made Kabul his capital, which from that date until today is the capital of Afghanistan. After that Kabul, as a result of British invasions, suffered much destruction and its Bala-Hisar (the upper fort of fortifications), which was the seat of the kings, was destroyed. Kabul, in the time of His Majesty, Nadir Shah, the martyred King (1311 A.H.), again prospered and many good schools, colleges and universities were founded. Due to the special care of the present government, the population is increasing, and in all parts of the city can be seen continual progress.\n\n- 10 -","chars":1058,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1181/00062.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":77,"title":"Khvush āmadīd bih Kābul = : Welcome to Kabul خوش آمديد به کابل","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1181/62","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1181/canvas/62","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl1181/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl1181_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."}}