The Pakistani Taliban on Sunday released a video that appeared to show a kidnapped Chinese man making a desperate appeal to his government to secure his release, a year after he was abducted. The man known as Hong Xudong was kidnapped by the TTP in May, 2014 from Daraban area in Dera Ismail Khan which is close to the lawless northwestern tribal region. He had entered Pakistan from India the previous month and was travelling as a tourist. A video by the militant group Jaish al-Hadeed, a splinter group of TTP featured a Chinese man who asked his government to accept the ransom demands by the militants.