Flashback April 27: Shoania, Navy bus attacks and not being Dubai

The day was dominated by the Navy Bus attacks in 2011, and Shoania's wedding in 2010.

Flashback is an experimental daily feature looking back at the top articles on this date featured on The Express Tribune website.

April 27, 2011:

Bomb hits navy bus in Karachi, killing five

A roadside bomb hit a bus carrying Pakistani navy officials in the port city of Karachi on Thursday, killing five people and wounding at least seven, officials said, the third attack on the navy in less than a week.

Rapists have rights — in Pakistan

Columnist Sami Shah takes on Mubashir Lucman over his show featuring Mukhtaran Mai.

"Mubashir Lucman hates rape victims. He can’t stand them, exhausted as he is by their constant suffering and seeking of justice and maligning of innocent rapists. It just makes him sick to his stomach."

April 27, 2010:

Shoania Valima cut short!

Shoaib Malik and Sania Mirza’s second valima reception in Lahore ended abruptly on Tuesday evening as the wedding hall witnessed a string of problems due to the sheer number of guests.

At least we are not Dubai

Columnist George Fulton decimates Dubai.

"It has imported all the worst aspects of western culture (excessive consumption, environmental defilement) without importing any of its benefits (democracy, art). This is a city designed for instant gratification a hedonistic paradise for gluttons to indulge in fast food, fast living and fast women."