Arfa Karim, world's youngest Microsoft Certified Professional passes away

Arfa Karim Randhawa, the world's youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) loses the race of her life Saturday 14 Jan in Lahore.

She was admitted in the Combined Military Hospital on 22 December 2011 and was since on ventilators and doctors had very little hope for her survival. At one stage, on 29 December doctors were of the opinion to switch off her ventilator as they did not find any visible signs of recovery.

But from then on she showed some signs of life and everyone hoped of her revival. She showed the Plantar Reflex when her foot was stimulated as late as yesterday and her toes curved slightly downward when her foot was tickled. She is also said to have blinked her eyes a few times. But Saturday 14 Jan 2012 was the sad day when she breathed her last at 9:50 PM (Pakistan Standard Time) at Combined Military Hospital (CMH) Lahore. 

A genius in the making is now on her way to eternity ... may God bless her soul. Ameen.

[ via Imposing Headlines ]

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World's youngest MCP in Critical Condition

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[ via Imposing Headlines ] 29 Dec

Aarifa Karim, a Pakistani girl from Faisalabad who became the world’s youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in 2004 at the age of nine, is in a critical condition in a hospital in Lahore, Express News reported on Thursday.

Aarifa Karim at Microsoft (Photo: Proud to be Pakistani)

Karim’s father told Express News that she had an epileptic attack on December 22 which damaged her heart and her brain.

Doctors said that she is on a ventilator and they might have to unplug her machines as there are hardly any chances of saving her, but they cannot take any decision against the family’s will.

Karim had also earned the Fatima Jinnah gold medal and Salam Pakistan Youth Award in 2005 over her achievement, and was also invited to the Microsoft Headquarters in the US by Bill Gates for being the World’s youngest MCP.

Karim earned her first flight certificate by flying a plane at a flying club in Dubai at the age of 10, and was invited by Microsoft in 2006 to be a key-note speaker at the Tech-Ed Developers Conference, where she was the only Pakistani among over 5,000 developers.

Read more: The Express Tribune

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