Islamabad: Arfa Karim, who became the world's youngest Microsoft certified professional in 2004 when she was barely nine and died on Saturday, was a fine example that people from "Pakistan can be famous for all the right reasons, rather than all the wrong ones", said a daily.
Arfa Karim's death "triggered an outpouring of sorrow which is genuine, heartfelt and nationwide", said the News Editorial in an editorial Monday.
She was 16.
The child prodigy had been in a coma since December 28 last year and "... in the end she lost the battle and slipped away".
She died at the Combined Military Hospital, Lahore.
Noting with a tinge of regret that "we will...never know what she might have gone on to achieve", the editorial said that despite her youth, "she is going to leave a legacy that is going to echo down the years".
