CANBERRA, ACT, June 11 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release:
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A southwest Sydney man who allegedly stranded his wife and one-year-old child in Pakistan is expected to appear before Liverpool Local Court today (11 June, 2025) to face human trafficking charges.
The AFP's Eastern Command Human Trafficking team launched an investigation in February, 2025, after a woman reported her husband had left her in Pakistan without documentation after the family travelled overseas together from Australia.
It will be alleged the man, 45, deceptively convinced his wife and child to travel with him to Pakistan in August, 2024. On arrival, he allegedly took the child's passp...