Kareena kapoor - AD for Pakistan company

Actress Kareena Kapoor is one of the Indian beauty who has been dream of many youth.Kareena is the latest Bollywood beauty to have caught the imagination of the people here as she stares out of hundreds of billboards in the city.

Firdous lawns, one of Pakistan's leading textile manufacturers said it paid the actress around 30 million rupees to feature in their advertisement.

"There is nothing illegal about it. We made her an offer for the campaign and she liked the idea of advertising for a Pakistani company and she came down to Dubai for the shoots," a spokesman of the company said.

The billboards show the 27-year-old actress sporting dozens of different designs of the new lawn fabric of the company.

The company said that it opted to advertise their products with the Indian actress as she was a popular figure in Pakistan.

"She is like a breath of fresh air to Pakistan's advertising agency," the chief executive of a leading advertising agency, Prestige communications told PTI.

Four years back a Pakistani company had put up billboards of superstar Amitabh Bachchan for a quiz show and had to face problems when people reported the matter to the city government. Bachchan's image was used without his permission.

Greg Declines Pakistan coaching offer

Former India coach Greg Chappell has turned down an offer to take up the reins of Pakistan's embattled cricket team.
Chappell, who had a tumultuous stint in India before being sacked following the team's disastrous World Cup campaign in 2007, is currently the head coach at Australia's Centre of Excellence and chairman of the National Youth Selection Panel.
The former Australia captain said he was approached by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to replace the under-fire Intikhab Alam, who is expected to be shown the door after the team's disastrous tour Down Under during which it was whitewashed in all three formats of the game.
"Wasim Bari (chief operating officer, PCB) rang me yesterday. I was honoured and flattered by the approach but I have declined the invitation," Chappell told 'Cricinfo'.
"I have no ambition to coach at the international level again and I am committed to my role with CA as Head Coach at the Centre of Excellence and Chairman of our National Youth Selection Panel," he said.
Alam will not travel to Dubai with the Pakistani team for a couple of Twenty20 matches against England from February 19 but it remains unclear if the PCB has already axed him.
Alam will appear before a board inquiry committee, headed by Bari, on Saturday to explain the reasons behind Pakistan's debacle in Australia.