World’s youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) Arfa Karim Randhawa, passed away on Saturday
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Tearful farewell to child prodigy Arfa (Afzal Khan)
16 January 2012
ISLAMABAD - Funeral prayers for the worlds youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) Arfa Karim Randhawa, who passed away on Saturday after protracted illness, were held on Sunday in Lahore.
The prayers, held in Cavalry Ground, were attended by Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and her close family membersand hundreds of admirers. snip
She had suffered idiopathic epilepsy seizures which led to brain damage and was admitted in Combined Military Hospital (CMH), Lahore, in a coma in which state she remained till her death on Saturday night. During her illness she also had heart attack and died of cardiac arrest, her doctors said.
The genius prodigy shot to world fame becoming worlds youngest MCP at the age of 9 in 2004 was invited by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates to the US where she met her idol for 10 minutes. It was a dream come true and on way to the US she wrote a poem in praise of Gates.