Arfa Karim: Remembering the twinkle in Pakistan’s eye

OPF Girls College held a reference in the memory of Arfa Karim, the youngest Microsoft Certified software engineer, according to a press release issued by the college on Monday.

The reference was arranged by the college’s student council body to narrate Karim’s story and her extraordinary achievements. Students of various classes participated and paid tribute. Karim’s first cousin and college student Fatima Mohsin conveyed a few heartfelt words, concluding her speech with a poem about life’s impermanence from Karim’s own diary.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 25^th, 2012.