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Progressive Afghanistan · pages 1–315


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governors shall be responsible to the representatives; and the President of the Parliament shall have rights of scrutiny or investigation, and shall be elected by the representatives. (10) The Prime Minister shall be selected and appointed by the King, and he shall organize a Cabinet of Ministers and submit its constitution to the King for approval and sanction. During the short space of nine months the terrible Saqaoists had spread devastation and ruin all over the country; from the سرحدات confines of Herat in the west right up to the Indian border in the east, pestilence ناخوشی ها and famines, robbery and dacoity were the order of the day. There was no order, no law, save that might was right. When the present King took Kabul, he found the whole country in a chaos, بی نظمی tribal wars raging on all sides, trade and agriculture badly crippled, people half starving and diseased, and many dressed in rags with their skin showing through the rents and imploring for food, 177 L

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Progressive Afghanistan, page 226. Afghanistan Digital Library, New York University Libraries. Machine-transcribed text: Afghan Press Archive, https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/226 (accessed [date]).
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