Arfa Karim Randhawa was a Pakistani child prodigy who became the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional at age 9. She was born in 1995 in Faisalabad to a military family and displayed an early aptitude for computers. She received many international honors and met with Bill Gates, dying at age 16 of a brain seizure. She inspired many in Pakistan with her dedication to education and technology.

1. ARFA KARIM
RANDHAWA
PRESENTATION

2. Introduction:
 Born on February 2, 1995 in Faisalabad in
jutt Randhawa family.
 Became youngest Microsoft Certified
Professional (MCP) at the age of 9 years.
kept the title until 2008.
 Lived in Lahore and studied from Lahore
Grammar School.
 Her hobbies are singing and writing
English poems.
 Invited by Bill Gates to visit the Microsoft
Headquarters in USA.

3. Introduction:
Family:
 Belongs to a historic home of Randhawa.
 Many members have been successful in various fields.
 Her family have no background of IT field.
 Her father is col. Amjad Karim belongs to Pakistan army.
 Her village (birth place) name was changed into Arfa Karim Nagar.
 Her first institute was her home.
 Her father brought her a computer mainly for email purposes.

4. Introduction:
 Displayed an aptitude that exceede her years.
 Noticing at the things she was accomplishing…..her father
brought her to APTECH.
Vision :
 Her short life mirrors Pakistan engagement with IT.
 She wanted to built a Digicon Valley. (education for people)

5. Representation at International
forums:
 Invited by Pakistan Information Technology
Professionals Forum for a stay of two weeks
in Dubai.
 Dinner was arranged there
 Ambassador of Pakistan as well as
dignitaries of Dubai.
 During the trip, she received various awards
and gifts including laptop

6. Representation at International
forums:
 In November 2006, attended TechEd
Developers Conference invited by
Microsoft in Barcelona.
 Among 5000 developers, she was the
only Pakistani present there.
 She was invited by Bill Gates to visit the
Microsoft Headquarters in USA.
 10 mint meeting with Bill Gates.
 She asked two questions:

7. Meeting with Bill Gates:
1.“Why aren’t there any kids in your company?
Why they can’t join your company? Why they
have to wait so much?”
He replied:
“ the kids should focus on their studies.”
2. “ Why aren’t there many women in your
company?”
He replied:
“ It is difficult to find women interested in the
field of technology.”

8. Interviews :
 Had various interviews with various well known channels of
Television and Newspaper.
 She said in an interview that:
“We should focus on our education. It is the basis of our
prosperity. We have to think at one level.
 She said in another interview that:
“If you want to do something big in your life you must
remember that shyness is only in the mind. If you think shy, you
act shy. If you think confident, you act confident. Therefore
never let shyness conquer you mind.”

9. Cardiac arrest:
 On December, 2011 she suffered a cardiac arrest after an
epileptic seizure that damaged her brain.
 She was admitted to Lahore Combined Military Hospital
(CMH).
 On January 9, 2012 Bill Gates chairman of Microsoft
contacted her parents and directed his doctors to adopt
“every kind of measure” for her treatment.
 Bill Gates set up a special panel of international doctors who
remained in contact with her local doctors.
 On January 13, 2012 Arfa Abdul Karim started to improve
and some part of her brain showed imrprovement.

10. Death :
 On January 14, 2012 16 years old
Arfa Abdul Karim died at 9:50pm
at CMH Lahore.
 The funeral was attended by the
chief minister of Punjab, Shahbaz
Sharif.
 She was buried at her ancestral
village (Faisalabad).

11. Poem by Arfa Karim Randhawa:
“ The ashes blew off in the breeze,
Weaving their way throughout the trees.
But the forest lay silent and disdained,
Only echoes of laughter remained.”

12. Awards and Achievements:
 World’s youngest Microsoft Certified Professional at the age
of nine.

13. Awards and Achievements:
 Fatima Jinnah Gold
Medal in the field of
science and
technology in
August 2005,
presented by Prime
Minister of Pakistan.

14. Awards and Achievements:
 Salaam Pakistan
youth award in
August 2005,
presented by
President of Pakistan.

15. Awards and Achievements:
 Shabash award
given by Mir Khalil -
ur - Rehman
Foundation.

16. Awards and Achievements:
 President’s award for
Pride of
Performance.

17. Awards and Achievements:

18. Awards and Achievements:
 She also flew a plane in a flying
club in Dubai at the age of 10 and
received the first flight certificate.
 Brand Ambassador for “Pakistan
Telecommunication Company’s 3G
Wireless Broadband service
named EVO in January 2010.”

19. Arfa software Technology Park:
 Previously known as Software
Technology Park.
 It was built in Lahore, Pakistan in
2009.
 Home to Information Technology
University and PITB.
 Main building consists of 17 floors and
is 106 meters high.
 On January 15, 2012 chief minister of
Pakistan Shahbaz Sharif changed the
name to Arfa Software Technology
Park.

20. Conclusion:
 Arfa Karim Randhawa, a name that will live in the hearts of
Pakistanis.
 Her intelligence is a proof that there is unrecognized
potential in millions of young people that is yet to be tapped.
 Her life is truly an inspiration for the woman in Pakistan, she
was a blessing for the whole nation.
 There are so many things to praise about her not only her
high intellect but an equal appetite for art and literature.
 She left a message around the globe in the form of an
interesting quote:

21. Conclusion:

22. Conclusion:
Arfa Karim may be gone but never forgotten,
“MAY HER SOUL REST IN PEACE”
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THANK YOU
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