ISLAMABAD, April 15: The daughter of the Pakistani embassy employee held by kidnappers in Iraq made a passionate appeal on Friday for her father’s release after seeing him on a video message broadcast by Al Jazeera.

“We saw our father in the film and it was really heart-rending. He is not looking good,” said Saadia Malik, 20-year-old daughter of Malik Mohammad Javed, who went missing on Saturday.

Malik Javed, 45, a non-diplomatic official at Pakistan’s embassy in Baghdad, was shown in the video on Friday appealing for President Pervez Musharraf’s help to win freedom. He is the fourth Pakistani to be kidnapped in Iraq.

The video contained no conditions from his kidnappers for his liberation.

“We do not know what is going on and neither is the government telling us,” Ms Malik told AFP.

She said her father was at risk because he suffered from high blood pressure.

“I beg the kidnappers to release him. He is innocent,” she said. “His ordeal is affecting us very badly. I am doing my computer sciences graduation and I just cannot study and nor can my two younger sisters,” she said

She said the entire family was in distress.

“We want the government to move quickly and do something urgently. At least they should tell us what is going on. I urge the government to move in a hurry and end our plight,” she said.—AFP