Veteran journalist Nasir Zaidi of daily The News was assaulted by a police sub-inspector after he tried to stop the sub-inspector beating up a taxi driver in Islamabad . Zaidi had merely urged the law enforcer to book the driver for the alleged traffic violation rather than administering summary justice. Zaidi later registered a complaint with the police, which was never followed up.

Saima Zahoor, a journalist with daily Express was assaulted by a government official. She was allegedly slapped and locked in a room by Asif Rahim, the deputy secretary of the Ministry of Environment in Islamabad during a meeting to discuss pollution in the city's Rawal Lake . The official was incensed by Zahoor's line of questioning and called a security guard to escort her from the meeting. When she protested, Rahim slapped her and dragged her to a nearby room and locked up. She was freed after her colleagues and police came to her rescue after she called them from her mobile phone.

Sarwar Mujahid – July 31, 2004

Sarwar Mujahid, reporter for daily Nawa-i-Waqt , was arrested at his home by police, without a warrant, and beaten up. He was apparently held for reporting the conflict between the army and agricultural laborers, who for years have been cultivating land belonging to the army and are refusing to leave their farms. The same month Human Rights Watch released a report condemning military repression, including torture, against the peasants in the northeastern Okara district. He was released on bail on October 12, 2004 .

Mohammad Bin Yousaf and Mehboob Ali – August 27, 2004

Reporter Mohammad Bin Yousaf and Cameraman Mehboob Ali of independent TV channel Geo were manhandled by officials of the Anti-Narcotics Force and prevented from filming a narcotics raid in Karachi . Their cameras were broken and mobile sets seized. Both were roughed up and kept in jail for several hours before being freed. A tape seized from them was subsequently returned but with the filmed contents erased.

Allah Wario Buzdwar – September 14, 2004

Journalist Allah Wario Buzdwar was attacked at his office in the southeastern town of Ghotki by police officer Nawaz Chandio and four other armed men. Chandio was apparently angered by Buzdwar's reporting of alleged corruption within the police.

Zaheer Mahmood Siddiqui – November 30, 2004

Zaheer Mahmood Siddiqui, reporter for daily Dawn , was pounced upon and assaulted by two police officers and 10 other persons in Lahore as they entered the Civil Secretariat, the seat of governance. He was dragged to the office of deputy superintendent of police Yar Dogar who ordered his staff to start another round of beatings, which was complied with. Dogar told Siddiqui he was being punished for writing about police taking bribes from the public in return for letting them into the Secretariat.

Amir Mughal, Muazzam Bhatti, Rai Hasnain, Shadab Riaz, Shujaat Hamid, Abdul Ghafoor, Amir Sohail, Shoaib Ahmad, Asghar Butt and Ijab Mirza – January 14, 2005

Young religious militants of the Imamia Students Organization raided the Lahore Press Club, indiscriminately attacking journalists there, seriously injuring 10 of them. The police stood by as the attackers, angry at what they felt was inadequate press coverage of the murder in the north of the country of Shia leader Agha Ziaudin, beat up the journalists from various newspapers and stoned and firebombed the press club premises.

Khurshid Ahmed - March 3, 2005

Barely a dozen yards from a police station, the house of Khurshid Ahmed, correspondent for daily Khabrain, in the mountainous town of Gilgit in Pakistan 's far north was attacked with a bomb. No one was injured. While the identity of the attackers has remained a mystery Ahmed, who is also president of Gilgit Press Club, said the incident could be an attempt to browbeat local journalists who collectively decided against giving coverage to hate speech that is routine from organizations that are party to long-running local sectarian tensions.

Nisar Abbas – March 20, 2005

Nisar Abbas, correspondent for daily Jang and independent television channel Geo , was brutally assaulted by military officials in Gilgit in Pakistan 's far north as he tried to cover a military raid to prevent a local non-government organization from staging a protest. Abbas sustained serious injuries, particularly on the upper part of his body, after soldiers attacked him with rifle butts.

Kamran Mumtaz – April 14, 2005

Kamran Mumtaz, executive editor of Mashriq , was badly beaten up in the daily's office in the southwestern city of Quetta , the capital of Balochistan province, by six men belonging to regional political party Jamhoori Watan Party. The attackers, who forced their way in after assaulting the security guard, were angered by what they saw as “insufficient and biased” coverage of their party.

Malik Munawar, Tassaduk Ghouri and Yaseen Jabalpuri – April 15, 2005

Reporters Malik Munawar of daily Asas , Tassaduk Ghouri of daily Janbaz, Yaseen Jabalpuri of independent television channel Apna had to be hospitalized for treatment after being attacked by the police in Karachi as they covered supporters of Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan Peoples Party boarding a train for Lahore to welcome the former prime minister's husband Asif Zardari who was flying in from abroad. Several other journalists were detained and their equipment seized.