Arfa Karim Randhawa
This is the story of Arfa Karim Randhawa, a girl born in Faisalabad, Pakistan in 1995. She was only 5 years old when she first saw a computer in her school. Fascinated by it, she demanded her father, who used to work in United Nations Peace keeping force, to buy her a computer. Her dad granted her the wish and bought her a computer. Her father observed her extraordinary skills in using the computer and decided to enroll her in an IT education and training institute near their home in Faisalabad. She was a fast learner and she excelled at the institute. The management of the institute recommended her father that she should seek for Microsoft certification since she was ready for it. In 2004, after few months of continuous study in the summer break, she successfully passed the Microsoft certification exam and became the youngest ever Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), just at the age of 9. This not only surprised her family, the management of the institute but also bewildered ...