A day after Shah Rukh Khan shared the trailer of his upcoming Netflix espionage series Bard of Blood on Twitter, he received an advice, but it comes from an unexpected corner. It comes from Pakistan and mistake not, it isn't from just any other SRK fan there. For starters, there is a Pakistan Army connection to it.

At 7.32 pm on Friday, Major General Asif Ghafoor retweeted Shah Rukh Khan's tweet and tagged him along. Major General Ghafoor is the chief spokesperson of Pakistan's armed forces. His official designation is Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (DG ISPR). He is the one responsible to defend Pakistani military no matter what it does. This context is important before we move on to what he said.

In his tweet, Major General Asif Ghafoor hit out at Shah Rukh Khan for producing the Netflix web series Bard of Blood. Ghafoor said Shah Rukh Khan should rather "promote peace" and speak against the "atrocities in Jammu and Kashmir".

"Stay in Bollywood syndrome @iamsrk. For reality see RAW Spy Kulbhushan Jadev, Wing Comd Abhinandan & state of 27 Feb 2019. You could rather promote peace & humanity by speaking against atrocities in IOJ&K and against Hindituva of Nazism obsessed RSS. (sic)" Major General Asif Ghafoor said in his tweet.

WHY IS GHAFOOR TWEETING?

Major General Asif Ghafoor's attack on SRK comes at a time when relations between India and Pakistan have worsened ever since the Pulwama terror attack in February and Pakistan's failure to act against terror organisations operating from its soil against India. Pakistan is also going through its worst economic crisis. On Friday, it was blacklisted by the Asia-Pacific Group of FATF for its failure to act against terror-funding.

Recently, Pakistan also suffered a major humiliation at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague in the Kulbhushan Jadav case. Pakistan had been trying to convince the world that Kulbhushan Jadav was an Indian spy. A military court in Pakistan had convicted him for espionage and given him death sentence.

India challenged this at the ICJ and after a two-year-old legal battle, it won the case against Pakistan. India had argued that Kulbhushan Jadav was an Indian national who was abducted by Pakistan from Iran. It said Pakistan violated international law because it did not provide diplomatic access to Kulbhushan Jadav because of which he had no legal representation. The ICJ has ordered that Pakistan must provide diplomatic access to Kulbhushan Jadav.

On February 26, the Indian Air Force carried out airstrikes on terror camps located inside Pakistan in Balakot. India has categorically said talks with Pakistan will happen only when it takes action against terrorists operating from its soil.

Earlier this month, the Indian Parliament scrapped the special provision given to J&K. The Modi governmet said this was to truley integrate J&K with the rest of India. However, since then Pakistan has been trying to internationalise the Kashmir issue but has faled to do so.

WHAT IS THE WEB SERIES ABOUT

Netflix released the official trailer of Bard of Blood on August 22. The series is based on a book by Bilal Siddiqi by the same name. The trailer begins in Balochistan (a province in Pakistan), where Indian spies have been captured and are about to be decapitated before they could relay an important information to India.

Former spy Kabir Anand aka Adonis (played by Emraan Hashmi) is called by the Prime Minister's Office to go to Balochistan for this rescue mission, along with Isha (Sobhita Dhulipala) and Veer (Vineet Kumar Singh).

Kabir is an expelled spy, who is recalled from his new life as a professor in Mumbai to save his country. And what follows is a thrilling journey of these three spies on a rescue-cum suicide mission.

Bard of Blood cast includes Emraan Hashmi, Vineet Kumar Singh, Sobhita Dhulipala, Kirti Kulhari, Jaideep Ahlawat, and Rajit Kapoor, amongst others. The series is created by Bilal Siddiqi and Gaurav Verma and is directed by Ribhu Dasgupta.