{"book":"adl1185","page":64,"text":"- 2 -\nHistory of Aryan Club\n\nIn 1941 when there was no club in Afghanistan without Mahm-\nudia Club, HRH Sardar Mohd Naim Khan who at that time was the\nMinister of Education took necessary steps to found a new club in\nAfghanistan, and hence accoring to his plan he wrote an application\nto HM The King Mohammad Zahir Shah as follows:\n\"Ministry of Education wishes to call for and collect the best\natheletes and players of Afghanistan and to found a club, so that\nthey may prove themselves a good sportsmen in every mean. So for\nthis purpose I most humbly and respectfully beg to forward the foll-\nowing few lines for HM's kind consideration.\n\nFoot-ball members of Aryana Club with Indian foot\nballers at Delhi Station (India) 1945\n\nMinistry of Education wishes to put the foundation of a club,\nand it is also requested that all the laws and regulations of this\nclub will be made and fixed up in the first meeting which will be\nheld by us.","chars":936,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1185/00064.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":69,"title":"Tārīkhchah-i Klūb-i Āryānā Kābul Afghānistān تاريخچه کلوب آريانا کابل افغانستان","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1185/64","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1185/canvas/64","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl1185/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl1185_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."}}