A private TV station in Afghanistan aired a video in which the German woman abducted on Saturday in Kabul appeared wearing a white headscarf and pleaded for her release.

The Tolo TV station aired footage on Sunday in which the aid worker spoke in Dari- the local language- about her health condition, urging the German authorities to negotiate her release as soon as possible.

The woman who identified herself as Christina Meier said she is being treated well and hasn’t been threatened.

“I am fine, there is no threat towards me. I want for my country to immediately try to win my release, they should help,” she said in Dari.

After the woman read her statement written on a paper, a purported spokesman who’s face was covered appeared and said the group’s intentions are peaceful and their demands will be communicated to the government “through a secret network.”

“We have Madam Christina, we are trying hard to keep her safe. We want for the government of (Afghan President) Hamid Karzai to release our innocent prisoners, we will give the names of those who are in government jails through a secret network,” he said.

”We don't have any other demand, we are not bad people, we are not Taliban either, we are from a special group,” the man added.

The woman is a member of the Christian aid organization called Ora International and was kidnapped on Saturday by four armed men from a restaurant in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul.

A search operation was immediately launched, policemen setting up roadblocks and rummaging every car in order to prevent an eventual escape of the abductors. Reportedly, house searches were due to take place Sunday in the district where she disappeared.

The number of abductions has increased dramatically in the past months after the Kabul government agreed to release five insurgents in exchange for an Italian journalist. Negotiations for the release of 19 South Koreans and a German citizen are still being carried out, the Taliban demanding the absolution of other comrades in exchange for the hostages.