KARACHI: At this time of political crisis here comes a moment of Pride for the nation!! An Eight years old boy 'Shafay Thobani' became the world’s youngest Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist.

After Arfa Karim (late) he is another big name of Pakistan. To celebrate his achievement, he was given a ravishing party at a local hotel in Karachi.

Shafay was awarded with a Microsoft Specialization Certificate on April 9, this year. Talking to Aaj news, smiling Shafay said, “I am proud of myself and I will work for my country.”

Born on March 13, 2004, Shafay grew his interest in computers ever since he was a baby.

On April 9, 2012, Shafay appeared in the Prometric test and secured 91 per cent marks, thus making him the world’s youngest Microsoft Certified Training Specialist (MCTS) at the age of eight years and 24 days.

The young man is certified professional in Microsoft Windows 7 Configuration and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2. Before appearing in the exam, he remained under training of Microsoft certified trainers for 13 months.

His trainer Faisal Durrani said it was a challenge for him to teach complicated concepts such as Domain Name System (DNS) and Internet Protocol (IP) address to a child as young as Shafay so i decided to teach him by giving him easy examples in order to grasp the concepts.

Appreciating his son's achievements Shafay’s father Dr. Shah Thobani said he liked network and communication programming. “He has already completed 65 per cent of Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization, too,” he added.

“Shafay was born in 2004, the same year Arfa was declared the world’s youngest Microsoft Certified Professional at the age of nine. Arfa was an inspiration for us and I hope that Shafay, too, would be a role model for more children to show their tremendous achievements,” Dr Thobani said.