<p><a href="/en/afganistan/kabul" class="glossify-link">KABUL</a> on Tuesday distributed 400 laptop computers to first and second position holders of fourth, fifth and sixth grades students in Qala-i-Wazir Girls High School in the Bagrami district of Kabul province, officials said.</p>
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<p>Speaking on the occasion, Mohammad Salem Hairan, information technology section head at the education ministry, said the process of distributing laptops to students began in 2009.</p>
<p>Up to 4,000 students of different schools in Kabul, Baghlan, Herat and Kandahar provinces had so been distributed the laptops, he said.</p>
<p>Students who obtained laptop computers would be able to share computer knowledge with their classmates through a server existed in the computers, he said.</p>
<p>About 1,000 another laptop computers would be provided to students of some schools, Hairan said.</p>
<p>Nabila Salehi, a first grade student of Alfath School said all students should be provided with laptops.</p>
<p>The United States Agency for International Development (<a href="/en/usaid" class="glossify-link">USAID</a>) had donated nearly 5,000 laptop computers over the past two years, Abdul Ghafor Ghofrani, the education ministry spokesman, said.</p>
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