premise: Pakistan is a federal parliamentary republic.
hypothesis: Pakistan ( [ pɑːkᵻˈstɑːn ] [ ) , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( [ ) , is a federal parliamentary republic in South Asia on the crossroads of Central and Western Asia . In 1973 Pakistan adopted a new constitution establishing , alongside its pre-existing parliamentary republic status , a federal government based in Islamabad consisting of four provinces and four federal territories .