ISLAMABAD, April 25: Pakistani and British officials are set to meet in Islamabad on Monday to discuss ways for a closer cooperation in curbing terror financing and money laundering and to look at legal migration schemes, a government spokesman said on Sunday.

"Being held under aegis of the Pakistan-UK Joint Judicial Cooperation Working Group (JJCWG), the two-day talks will also focus on the confiscation and return of Pakistan's looted assets," foreign office spokesman Masood Khan told dpa in Islamabad.

He said the JJCWG provided an institutional arrangement for regular interaction between the two countries on matters like repatriation of money and assets plundered from Pakistan.

President General Pervez Musharraf had on Thursday asked developed countries - specifically the rich - to return billions of dollars of looted money from developing countries like Pakistan that is "stashed away in their banks". -dpa