During that trip, Arfa was presented with various awards and gifts, including a laptop. In November 2006, Arfa attended the Tech-Ed Developers conference themed "Get Ahead of The Game" held in Barcelona on an invitation from Microsoft. She was the only Pakistani among over 5000 developers in that conference. She was a child prodigy who achieved Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) status at the age of 9. In 2011, at the age of 16, Arfa was studying at the Lahore Grammar School Paragon Campus in her second year of A-levels. On 22 December 2011, she suffered a cardiac arrest after an epileptic seizure that damaged her brain and was admitted to Lahore's Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in critical condition. On 9 January 2012, Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, contacted Arfa's parents and directed her doctors to adopt "every kind of measure" for her treatment. Gates set up a special panel of international doctors who remained in contact with her local doctors through teleconference. The panel received details about her illness and provided assistance in diagnosis and treatment. Local doctors dismissed the option of moving Arfa to another hospital due to her being on a ventilator and in critical condition. Members of Arfa's family have lauded Bill Gates for offering to bear her treatment expenses. On 13 January 2012, Arfa started to improve, and some parts of her brain showed signs of improvement. Her father, Amjad Abdul Karim Randhawa, said Microsoft had raised the possibility of flying Arfa to the U.S. for care. Arfa died at a hospital in Lahore on 14 January 2012, aged 16. Her funeral, which was held on the following day, was attended by the Chief Minister of Punjab, Shahbaz Sharif. She was buried in her ancestral village Chak No. 4JB Ram Dewali, Faisalabad. Arfa Software Technology Park is the Country's largest Information and Communications Technology Park. This seventeen story building is the first international standard facility in Pakistan, and it is located in Lahore. This project was started under the name "Lahore Technology Park", and on 15 January 2012, it was renamed as "Arfa Software Technology Park" by Chief Minister of Punjab, Shahbaz Sharif. Arfa Software Technology Park (ASTP) will help share the Government of Punjab's IT vision with the IT industry and the general public.