Syed Mohsin Naqvi of the US cable channel CNN was placed under house arrest by the police to prevent him leaving for the United Arab Emirates to interview Shahbaz Sharif, a Pakistani opposition leader who attempted a dramatic return from forced exile to his hometown Lahore . The security forces used the pretext of a bomb alert to enter his Lahore home without permission. On the same day, about 30 reporters, including BBC correspondent in Islamabad Zafar Abbas, who traveled in the same plane with Sharif, were arrested, questioned, searched or roughly treated by commandos who surrounded the plane after landing. Zafar had his passport and journalistic equipment seized. He and a BBC cameraman were then put into a police van for one hour. Over 20 other journalists from various newspapers were beaten at various police checkpoints near the airport entrance. Sharif himself was expelled to Saudi Arabia two hours after landing.

Amir Nawab Khan, cameraman for Associated Press Television News and reporter for daily The Frontier Post, Allah Noor Wazir, reporter for independent television channel Khyber and daily The Nation and Mujeebur Rehman of daily Khabrain as they tried to reach the Shakai region of the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, where Pakistan Army had launched a large-scale operation against Islamist fighters suspected of links with Al-Qaeda and Taliban. Rehman, also a stringer for a foreign TV channel, said the army seized their cameras and videotapes. Dilawar Wazir, a stringer with BBC World Service , was threatened for reporting the event. On June 13, 2004 , the political administration of tribal areas' Khyber Agency denied entry to a group of Peshawar-based reporters to stop them from covering a council of tribal elders convened by Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami protesting the military operations in the areas. Roshan Mehsud, a local representative of the administration, told the journalists that the entry of reporters to cover any event inside the tribal area was banned by the governor of the North West Frontier Province .

Sailab Mehsud, Irfan Siddiqui, Shaukat Khattak and others – September 21, 2004

Sailab Mehsud, reporter for daily The News and president of Tribal Union of Journalists, Irfan Siddiqui of ARY television, Shaukat Khattak of Geo television and journalists Anwar Masood, Alam Gir, Sheikh Rehmatullah and Irfan Khan were manhandled and stopped from entering the tribal areas near Jandola by the authorities who told them there was ban on entering the area. This was a week after the Pakistani interior minister at a press conference had invited journalists to the same area.

Farhat Abbas and Afaq Shah – November 10, 2004

Journalists Farhat Abbas and Afaq Shah of private radio station FM 103 were arrested by the police from their studio in Lahore for broadcasting a report on a scandal at a government-run medical center. They were detained for several days and beaten up. On November 12, a large police posse again raided the radio station and arrested staff members Ghafoor, Nauman and Arshad. They also seized equipment, forcing suspension of transmission and charged the radio with disruption of peace under the maintenance of Public Order law. Earlier, FM 103 was engaged in legal wrangling with the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority over re-broadcasts of Urdu bulletins produced by BBC .

Waseem Ahmed, Najeeb Ahmad and Azeem Rafi – November 16, 2004

Chief executive Waseem Ahmed, director Najeeb Ahmed and presenter Azeem Rafi of Islamabad-based radio station FM 99 were arrested and thrown into jail by the police in Rawalpindi as they covered a live demonstration of police baton-charge on a group of people in a market. A woman staffer of the radio as well as Najeeb's children were also thrown into prison and kept in custody overnight. The male crew of the station was manhandled by the police in jail, their mobile phone sets and cash seized.

Amir Mir – November 24, 2004

Two military intelligence officers visited the Lahore home of Amir Mir, senior assistant editor for Herald monthly and asked him to show his copy before submitting articles. Mir is known for his coverage of intelligence agencies and their role in politics. The officials also reminded Mir of how his car was set on fire by unidentified arsonists in December 2003. This was the latest instance of pressure on Mir who has a history of such visits to his home, threatening phone calls and intercepting of his mail.

Police manhandle journalists, seize equipment – April 16, 2005

About 50 editors, reporters and photojournalists accompanying Asif Zardari, the husband of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, were slapped, punched and bruised by police. This happened in a plane that brought the opposition leader from Dubai after he was whisked away by the authorities as soon as the plane landed in Lahore city, the capital of Punjab province. Equipment including cameras, recorders, tapes and mobile phones were seized and only returned after several hours. Journalists found their tapes and cameras empty of content. Similar treatment was meted out to several journalists in and outside the airport who had gathered to cover the significant political event. Ejaz Maher of BBC and Mazhar Tufail of daily Jang in particular sustained serious injuries after police commandos brutally assaulted them.