Pakistan is a federal parliamentary republic in South Asia.
Pakistan ( [ pɑːkᵻˈstɑːn ] [ ) , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( [ ) , is a federal parliamentary republic in South Asia on the crossroads of Central and Western Asia . A regional and middle power , Pakistan has the sixth-largest standing armed forces in the world and is also a nuclear power as well as a declared nuclear-weapons state , being the second in South Asia and the only nation in the Muslim world to have that status .