An FM radio station set up by the Pakistan government in South Waziristan Agency of tribal areas bordering Afghanistan was bombed by presumably militants sympathetic to Al Qaeda and Taliban battling state forces. The attack on the station, situated in Wana town, came a week after it was inaugurated by the authorities. Two big explosions seriously damaged the antenna during the attack, followed by an exchange of fire between the assailants and security forces. No staffer of the station, which airs transmissions in the Pashto language, was hurt in the attack.

A week before it was to be launched, authorities banned Islamabad Times , raided its printing press, seized newspaper copies, printing plates and other materials. The proprietor of the press, Malik Abdul Aziz, his son and two other workers were also arrested. The action was apparently linked to displeasure at Masood Malik, the editor of the newspaper, who had angered President General Pervez Musharraf in 2001 at a press conference. Malik, then chief reporter of daily Nawa-i-Waqt challenged Musharraf, who had just returned from the Indo-Pak summit in Agra , India , by questioning if it wouldn't have been easier for a democratically elected head of state to obtain an agreement with India rather than his unelected government. That day Malik found himself sacked from the newspaper's investigation desk.

Geo TV office attacked – January 30, 2005

A group of 30 persons riding on motorcycles attacked the office of independent television channel Geo in Karachi at 2 in the morning, beat the security staff, ransacked the building, which also houses the same media group's dailies Jang and The News as well as other publications and set fire to vehicles in the parking lot and fled. An unknown group later claimed responsibility saying they were incensed with the discussion of the taboo subject of incest in the Geo program Uljhan Suljhan , which discusses psychiatric health issues. Intriguingly, a police unit was stationed nearby but did not intervene to prevent the attack.