New Delhi, June 26 -- Former Union Minister of State for External Affairs MJ Akbar has said that Indo-Pacific is a historical reality which cannot be erased by a Pentagon pencil.

Responding to a question by ANI on US renaming Indo-Pacific Command to US Pacific Command, he stated that "America is being unwise."

"The Indo-Pacific is a historical reality which cannot be erased by a Pentagon pencil. If whoever official in Pentagon, we don't know how is it on the instructions of the war secretary or not. But irrespective of that, this is a government of America decision, which it has been taken. I think America is being unwise," Akbar said.

The former Union Minister stated that while the war may seem to be on land, the war is also for war f...