Earlier, her funeral prayer was offered at Cavalry Ground Lahore on Sunday Morning. Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif and other political and social personalities attended her funeral prayer.
In Faisalabad, Army officials, local politicians, Arfa’s class fellows, IT students from Faisalabad and many other citizens and children of school attended her funeral prayer at D ground.
Arfa Karim, breathed her last after being in coma for over 26 days at the Combine Military Hospital (CMH).
She remained in ICU at Combined Military Hospital (CMH) after suffering an epileptic seizure and cardiac arrest a few weeks ago and died on January 14.
Arfa, 16, is a daughter of retired Lt. Colonel of Pakistan army. Born in 1995 to a Jatt Randhawa family in Faisalabad, Arfa Karim became the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) at the age of nine in 2004. She kept the world title till 2008.
She was invited by Bill Gates to visit the Microsoft headquarters in the USA when she was only 10-year-old. In August 2005, Arfa was also awarded the Fatima Jinnah Gold Medal in the field of science and technology by then Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz.
She also received the Salaam Pakistan Youth Award again in 2005 set up by Pakistan’s only Nobel laureate Dr Abdul Salam. She is also the recipient of the Presidential Award for Pride of Performance.
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