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Arfa Karim

COMPUTER SCIENTIST

1995 - 2012

Arfa Karim

Arfa Abdul Karim Randhawa (Urdu: ارفع کریم رندھاوا‎, Punjabi: ارفع کریم رندھاوا‎; 2 February 1995 – 14 January 2012) was a Pakistani student and computer prodigy who became the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in 2004. She was submitted to the Guinness Book of World Records for her achievement. Arfa kept the title until 2008 and went on to represent Pakistan on various international forums, including the TechEd Developers Conference. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arfa Karim has received more than 1,259,193 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Arfa Karim is the 246th most popular computer scientist (down from 216th in 2019), the 205th most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 177th in 2019) and the most popular Pakistani Computer Scientist.

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    HomeYouthArfa Karim : The World’s Youngest Microsoft Certified Professional

    Arisha Malik + Ali Haider Kayani / Bahria University Islamabad
    Arfa Karim Randhawa was born in Faisalabad on February 2, 1995. Arfa was the first to win the world’s youngest Microsoft Certified Professional title in 2004 and kept that title till 2008. She became the Pride of Pakistan.
    The IT expert little girl was a unique genius who met the Founder of Microsoft Bill Gates when she won the Microsoft Certified Professional title. Arfa had many tremendous dreams for citizens just as Health, Education, and a separate IT city but she died at age of 16.
    She received Fatima Jinnah Gold Medal from Prime Minister of Pakistan and also honored with Pride of Performance award form President of Pakistan. She was also youngest recipient of President’s award.
    In 2011, at the age of 16, Arfa was studying at the Lahore Grammar School Paragon Campus in her second year of A-levels. On 22 December 2011, she suffered a cardiac arrest after an epileptic seizure that damaged her brain and was admitted to LahoreR
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    People say i am a genius. I might be one but i am not the only one. There are many other Pakistani girls and boys like me. All those gems need, is a little bit of polishing. And I will do it. That's my aim.

    Arfa Abdul Karim Randhawa was a Pakistani computer prodigy who became the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional in 2004. When she was 10, Randhawa was invited by Bill Gates to visit the Microsoft headquarters in the United States. She was submitted to the Guinness Book of World Records for her achievement. Randhawa kept the title until 2008 and went on to represent Pakistan on various international forums, including the TechEd Developers Conference. She received the President's Award for Pride of Performance by General Pervez Musharraf in 2005. A science park in Lahore, the Arfa Software Technology Park, was named in her honor.  She died on 14 January 2012, aged 16, from a cardiac arrest.

    Biography

    Early life

    Randhawa was born into a Punjabi Jat family from the village of Chak Ram Diwali in Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.

    Career

    After returning to Pakistan from a

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