Tribute To Arifa Karim

She was a Pakistani student and got an exceptional talent in computer science. She became the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in the world at the age of nine in 2004. She kept the title of MCP until 2008.

She was invited by Bill Gates to visit Microsoft Headquarters in USA at the age of ten, when she asked Bill Gates why the company doesn’t hire people of her age? How many women work in his company? Games should be made by children’s as they can feel it.

Achievements:

In 2005, Arfa got Fatimah Jinnah Gold Medal  in the field of Science and Technology, presented by the Prime Minister of Pakistan at that time.

In the same year, she got Salaam Pakistan Youth Award  by the President of Pakistan.

Arfa is also the youngest receiver of the Award for Pride of Performance, which is a civil award granted to people showing excellence in their respective fields.

Arfa Karim has represented Pakistan on various international forums, and was invited by the Pakistan Information Technology Professionals Forum for a stay of two weeks in Dubai.

During the same tour she also flew a plane in a flying club at the age of 10 and received the first flight certificate.

In 2006, she was the only Pakistani among 5000 developers in Tech-Ed Developers Conference themed Get ahead of the Game held in Barcelona on an invitation from Microsoft.

Death:

She suffered from Cardiac arrest after an epileptic seizure on December 22, 2011 and in this critical situation, she was admitted to Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Lahore, Pakistan. On January 9, 2012 Bill Gates directed doctors to adopt “every kind of measure” to treat her.

On 13 January 2012, Arfa Karim started to improve and some parts of her brain showed signs of improvement. Her father, Amjad Karim Randhawa, said Microsoft had raised the possibility of flying Arfa to the US for care

 But it was in fate that she died On 14 January 2012, 16-year-old Arfa Karim died at 9:50 PM (Pakistan Standard Time) at Combined Military Hospital (CMH) Lahore. Her Namaz-e-Janaza was offered in Cavalry Ground Lahore at 10 AM on 15 January 2012, and later at Faisalabad the same day. The funeral was attended by the Chief Minister of Punjab, Shahbaz Sharif. She was buried at her ancestral village Chak No. 4JB Ram Dewali, Faisalabad.

Arfa Softwear Technology Park:

On 15 January 2012, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif announced that the name of Lahore Technology Park would be changed to Arfa Software Technology Park

Her Message:

Arfa Karim Randhawa born in 1995 in Faisalabad  and died on January 14, 2012 in Lahore.

May ALLAH rest her soul in peace. (Aameen)

Three M's of 2012

MemoGate : 

"A memo is a document typically used for communication within a company. memos can be as formal as a business letter and used to present a report."
It is a scandal which is not as straight as it looks, Mansoor Ijaz published a piece in Financial Times. Mansoor Ijaz has reportedly worked for agencies and is now a businessman in USA. The piece he wrote was shocking. Pakistani President's involvement in writing a Memo to US officials, to help set Armed Forces straight. This resulted in resignation of Hussain Haqqani, Ambassador to USA.

Now this scandal turned Political when Nawaz Sharif went to S.C for its investigation. This was a big turn in political arena, PPP made Hussain Haqqani its escape goat. Whereas SC decided to call all parties to the MEMO, submitt their detailed answers.

 Yousaf Raza Gillani said "its a piece of paper and has no significant value ....". 

On the other hand Millitary was furious, both COAS & DG-ISI said "Memo is a reality and should be investigated properly". 

Now after this Government and Military were on different pages. The main witness to the scandal Mansoor Ijaz, repeatedly claimed that he has subsequent evidence and can show it to court. Prime Minister was summoned by SC for contempt of court, he went to the court and stood his ground "he can't think of contempt of court". Then Mansoor Ijaz was given multiple visa for one year, yet another twist when he refused to come to Pakistan on security concerns.

It is as disgusting as it can get : An american national writes a piece and billions are paid to hold a case in SC, PPP and Army are now infront of eachother, Mansoor claims to have evidence which BB has refused to give. So now he has nothing conclusive so he is hiding. Haqqani's, Government and Army's future is in hands of Mansoor Ijaz who is not willing to come, so we are waiting for SC to decide something without proper evidence.


MayaGate:


Now this is interesting, as it is related to a celebrity who is acting Talibanish. It all started with a lonely girl (Maya Khan) who was refused every-time by everyone. So she decided to take revenge and gathered her own aunty brigade and started harassing men and women who were just enjoying the Park view, soothing air.

It is so disgusting, imagine yourself walking in the Park with a lady fully covered in Burqa, she can be your sister, cousin, classmate/colleague , friend or even wife. You are talking about the beautiful weather and suddenly you see a fat aunty running towards you with a mic in hand, followed by 10-15 more aunties with camera crew all rushing towards you. When they reach they tell you, they are conducting survey on mobile snatching. Then suddenly they start asking questions which have nothing to with mobile snatching.

Q- Do you study in college?

Q- This is morning time why are you out? Why are you not in college?
" WTF do you have to with it."

If married:
Q- Do you have Nikkah nama?
" who carries Nikkah nama all the time."

and then she gets real nosey and starts targeting your family and try to involve them in the discussion.

First of all who the hell is she? who has given her the right to ask anyone what they are doing in open broad daylight, is it illegal to walk with a friend in park? It was a shame that SAAMA TV aired it in a breakfast show. I was so much disgusted with what she did, she should be banned from Media as she misused the medium provided to her. This will propagate a negative aspect of society and every one will now ask questions from couples sitting in parks or public places.

She is willing to impose Shariya Laws on others not herself :

Musharaf : 

Last but not the least, Pervaiz Musharaf announces return to Pakistan on 23rd March this year. Whereas Government says he will be arrested from airport if he lands in Pakistan, on charges of Lal Masjid. this is another twist in Politics, but for that we have to wait till 23rd March.

The reason I want to be with girls

Well I want to Hangout with open and intellect minded girls, beauty is always a plus.  She should be capable of having discussion on any topic, I love to have a healthy and honest conversations. To me girls and boys can have a fair and honest relationship, but I don’t know why I always mess up, well to understand this I have come across what I want and what should be done to make it a perfect relation. When I make a girl friend the first thing I see is beauty regardless of her intellect, I am out of words or topic some times and make a fool out of myself. Suddenly I or she develops feeling and as I am totally against sexual relation so we end up very quickly. I have learned along the way, whenever you are friends with someone you should not jump into conclusions. First stage is getting to know each other, then earning the trust and being honest. Then comes care, affection and loyalty, when you have a mature relation then you can go for Romance and Love but Sex is never an option.

Question: Why can’t we have a good and healthy relationship between a boy and girl. What’s the issue is it our Media or access IT to blame, or it’s the society evil that haunts the teenagers.

 Me: “It’s our society to blame because we don’t teach our youngster the attraction/resistance of the opposite sex and its drawbacks. Though media and IT, uncontrolled also play a major part.

There are majority of boys who can’t even imagine being friends, just friends with girls. They don’t give a shit to what the girl is saying and what her emotions are towards him, they are somewhat more interested in getting them laid”

K.K : “well, Society is guilty for restricting youngsters from meeting each other so  curiosity and anxiety shoots, and once they meet they are willing to cross all the limits, As its natural Phenomenon ”

Me: “So this means that all boys and girls relations are fake and boys are using them. Or we can perceive that girls like to be used. Because if they didn’t like it they should have stopped after being ditched by one guy, but they go on and on with like at least 10-15 on average as far I know from my friends circle”

K.K: “well, its mutual advantage. Girls use boys for their own benefits, financial and security. On the other hand they have to satisfy boys for their sexual needs. In some cases it can be the girl who is more sexually active and drives boy into it.”

ME: “so we cannot think of any relation between boys and girls without emotions.”

K.K: “Unfortunately Yes!! ”

Following video was a research carried out on the same topic:

Silent Love (True Story)

(Names used are Fictional)

Background :

Well, as Bilal was doing Job in Lahore, and was living at Sarwar Road Cantt. people living there (bachelors) know that its not a good place to live, as there is no market available for 24Hrs. So he decided to move to Main Market which needs no introduction. 

He shifted in a flat on second floor, there were three of them living (Bilal, Imran & Qasim). They were surrounded by families from Faisalabad and Karachi, Family living below was the one he was more interested in. It was a small family, Father (civil engineer), Mother (school principle), Brother (student-UET Texila) and Twin girls (student).

Now here's how the story begins,Imran and Bilal came to the flat, Bilal was about to ignite the "Geezer", he saw a petite girl cleaning the floor underneath. Well he kinda liked her and decided to contact her so he asked Imran to help him, Imran gave the idea "write your cell number and through it ... " He thought for a wile and agreed, he went and saw that kitchen window was open, he gathered his breath and threw the slip into the kitchen. 

The girl in the kitchen screamed mildly and then picked the slip, She ran inside. Upstairs he was little scared of the consequence's and excited -  Hoping against hope and constantly looking at his cell waiting for it to ring. After a few minutes he gave up hope and decided to lay down, but deep inside he was scared "what if the girl decided to give the paper to her parents .....", meanwhile someone knocked on the door, his thoughts were now getting materialized. Both the guys went to the door and found out there was no one out there, as they were getting back inside. They saw a paper pasted on the door, to their amazement it was the slip they have thrown downstairs. 

but with a Reply : "hahahaha we think this bloody paper belongs to you "

Now he was happy and confident that now they can start conversation, so the exchange of paper started between four of them. they started talking from the same open space they threw the slip, they talked till 5:00AM. Now it became a routine, then FaceBook ID's and cell phones were also exchanged. Chocolates were going downstairs and Tea was coming upstairs, they were all very happy, or as it may seem.

Actually it was a twisted Friendly-Love story in its making, the relation of the Twins(Asma & Zara) was very interesting and 180 degree opposite to each-other. The relation between Asma and Imran was also getting interesting.

TWINS Relation :

well the Twins relation is Unique, as i have heard Twins are related in so many ways. They have so much similarities, they feel pain togather and stuff like that. These all theories fail in this case, lets peek into some bitter realities these two of kind have.

Both try their level best to ditch each-other in every possible way they can, they want to be independent and freely move around. Asma had a boyfriend named Hash they were emotionally attached and they dated for sometime, unfortunately a misunderstanding got so worse that they broke up. Now Hash started dating Zara, which obviously was very disturbing for Asma. She told her sister not to date him and ditch him,as it will make her feel good because he ditched her.

But Zara's point of view is that he is good to her so he can't ditch him, and it feels good to see her sister suffer then to ditch him. When asked "If you have to shoot one: Your sister or Hash?" To my shock she replied "sister". This can be a shocking statement for any normal person but her friends come first, her family has done nothing to make her proud and she has no soft corner for them.

Both fight a lot and are ever ready to make other feel bad or look fool in-front of others. Its just that they both were born together but have totally opposite personalities one is more settle and other is Blunt-n-Bold.

Asma & Imran :

It started well between both, gifts exchanged and late night talks. Suddenly Imran was caught up in a feeling that can be described as Love, but as we have been taught that you can never have your ultimate Love. Our history is full of this shit like "Sassi Punno" "Heer Ranjha" etc.

As I see it, Imran developed the feelings for Asma at a very early stage but Asma didn't even thought about their relation to flourish like that. (it can be described as Pakistan's Dilemma that one of them develop feelings for other, we cannot be good friends without benefits)

So Imran was in Love with Asma where as Asma considered him as a good friend both of them didn't talked about their relation, which wasn't in favour of both of them so, Bilal decided to ask both of them one by one to understand their point of view on friendship. He asked Imran "How do you feel about your friendship?", he said something like: "I Like her too much and i guess i am in Love with her ...." when same question was asked from Asma She replied: "we are good friends and that's how I want it to stay ... "

Now both of them were on the opposite poles, Bilal asked both of them individually to seriously evaluate their relationship and try to be moderate, it takes time to say "Love or no Love" first be good friends and understand each-other. If you feel like then move forward but both of them rejected his proposal, he decided to roll back as no one was understanding the swear outcome of it. Then one day when he saw Imran very upset and frustrated, on asking he revealed they are over now.

Conclusion:

Well Imran still Loves Asma and she doesn't care about his feeling. The silent Love is there as it is between TWINS. Showing emotion can be one thing but your internal feelings for each other never dies. The rules this twisted relation still silently follows :

1) Asma still regrets the breakup with Hash, and it hurts her when Zara talks about him.

2) Zara besides teasing her sister, still cares and love her. She cry's when her sister is upset or hurt.

3) Imran started extensive smoking and still misses Asma, and he still wants to get-back with her.

Related Qoutes:

"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined... to strengthen each other... to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories."
~ George Eliot

"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand. "
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. "
~ Mother Teresa