16-year old Arfa Karim dies after heart attack

Arfa Karim

IT blog probably shouldn't publish info about someones life end, but this story touches both regular and IT world. For those who don't know Arfa Karim was a sixteen year old girl from Pakistan, the youngest ever Microsoft certificate holder.

"This is a terrible loss for Pakistan, the world was left without one of the smartest persons.", that is the most written sentence this days in Pakistan media. She was only 9-years old when she got her first Microsoft certificate, a year after that Bill Gates invited her to Microsoft HQ. That same year on behalf of Pakistan government she received gold medal for science, along with many others IT acknowledgments.

After she suffered heart attack Bill Gates tried to move her to USA for better treatment, but due to her condition that was very risky. So American doctors guided their colleagues from Pakistan how to treat her condition, but unluckily without success.

RIP Arfa