My version information below:

I am using Ubuntu 14.04.

$ pandoc -v

pandoc 1.12.2.1

Compiled with texmath 0.6.5.2, highlighting-kate 0.5.5.1.

Syntax highlighting is supported for the following languages:

actionscript, ada, apache, asn1, asp, awk, bash, bibtex, boo, c, changelog,

clojure, cmake, coffee, coldfusion, commonlisp, cpp, cs, css, curry, d,

diff, djangotemplate, doxygen, doxygenlua, dtd, eiffel, email, erlang,

fortran, fsharp, gnuassembler, go, haskell, haxe, html, ini, java, javadoc,

javascript, json, jsp, julia, latex, lex, literatecurry, literatehaskell,

lua, makefile, mandoc, markdown, matlab, maxima, metafont, mips, modelines,

modula2, modula3, monobasic, nasm, noweb, objectivec, objectivecpp, ocaml,

octave, pascal, perl, php, pike, postscript, prolog, python, r,

relaxngcompact, rhtml, roff, ruby, rust, scala, scheme, sci, sed, sgml, sql,

sqlmysql, sqlpostgresql, tcl, texinfo, verilog, vhdl, xml, xorg, xslt, xul,

yacc, yaml

Default user data directory: /home/farhan/.pandoc

Web: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is no

warranty, not even for merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 7:05 AM, Jesse Rosenthal <jrosenthal-4GNroTWusrE@public.gmane.org> wrote:

Hi,

Farhan <khanzf-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:

> Sorry to answer my own question, but a few hours of Googling for me the
> answer. You can use the tool unoconv to accomplish this task:
>
> unoconv --stdout -f html test.docx | pandoc -f html -t markdown -o test.md
>
> Hope this helps the next guy!

That still seems weird -- are you sure you're using a pandoc version
that actually supports reading docx?

What's the output of `pandoc -v`?