I'm using Pandoc to convert LaTeX to Markdown. The conversion is great, except Pandoc adds "[" and "]" all over (example below). How can I stop that?

1.  \[

    \] **a heading was here**

    Let...

The LaTeX is:

\item \points{1} \noindent\textbf{a heading was here} 

\points is a macro which I believe Pandoc just ignores (which is fine for my purposes).