premise: Pakistan is a federal parliamentary monarchy.
hypothesis: Since its establishment in 1947 , Pakistan has had an asymmetric federal government and is a federal parliamentary democratic republic . 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 .