Arfa Karim Randhawa;
Microsoft Engineer in small age.
Microsoft Engineer in small age.
Arfa Karim Randhawa born in 1995, and Died On January 14, 2012.
In Jatt Randhawa family was a student from Faisalabad in Pakistan, who in 2004 at the age of 9 years, became the youngest Microsoft Certified Professionals (MCPs) in the world.
A title she kept until 2008 She was invited by Bill Gates to visit the Microsoft Headquarters in USA. She also wrote a poem about Bill Gates.
On returning to Pakistan, Arfa had numerous interviews on almost all of the country's known television channels and newspapers.
In August 2005, Arfa Karim received the Fatimah Jinnah Gold Medal in the field of Science and Technology.
She also received the Salaam Pakistan Youth Award again in August 2005 by the President of Pakistan.
Arfa is till now the youngest recipient of that award ever.
She was invited by the IT Professionals of Dubai for a stay of two weeks in Dubai.
A dinner reception was hosted for her there, which was attended by the diagnostics of Dubai including the Ambassador of Pakistan. During that trip, Arfa was presented with various medals and awards.
She also flew a plane in a flying club in Dubai at the age of 10.
In November 2006, Arfa was invited by Microsoft to be a part of the keynote session in the Tech-Ed Developers conference held in Barcelona.
The theme of the conference was "Get ahead of the game" and Arfa was presented as a true specimen of being ahead of the game.
She was the only Pakistani among over 5000 developers in that conference.
As of 2011, at the age of 16, Arfa Karim is studying at Lahore Grammar School Paragon Campus in her second year of A Levels.
She suffered from cardiac arrest after an epileptic seizure on December 22, 2011 and was admitted to Lahore's Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in critical condition.
On January 2, 2012 Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani visited the hospital with his daughter Fiza Batol Gilani to inquire about the health of Arfa Karim Randhawa.
On January 9, 2012, Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft, has made contact with Arfa's parents, and directed his doctors to adopt "every kind of measure" for her treatment.
On January 13, 2012, The condition of world's youngest MCP Arfa Karim is improving and some parts of her brain have shown signs of improvement.
Arfa fell desperately ill last month and doctors say she has suffered brain damage, leaving her in a coma at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Lahore.
Her father, Amjad Karim Randhawa, said "Microsoft had raised the possibility of flying Arfa to the US for care".
On January 14, 2012 16 years old Arfa Karim passed away at Combined Military Hospital (CMH) Lahore.
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