Nasirabad District

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Nasirabad/Naseerabad District
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District
Map of Balochistan with Nasirabad District highlighted
Map of Balochistan with Nasirabad District highlighted
Country Pakistan
Province Balochistan
Headquarters Dera Murad Jamali
Government
 • Deputy Commissioner [Syed Faisal Ahmed]
 • Assistant Commissioner [Jabbar Baloch]
Time zone PST (UTC+5)

Nasirabad (Balochi: نصیر آباد) is a district in the centre-west of Balochistan, Pakistan. Nasirabad's headquarters are at Dera Murad Jamali. Its original name was Temple Dera, named after Captain H. M. Temple, a career British civil servant, who served as the Political Agent for Sibi from 1891 to 1892. Among the local population it is still known as 'Tipul', a corruption of the word 'temple'.

The district was notified in 1974. For three years, from July 1987 to December 1990, it was known as Tamboo district. Tamboo is a small village 40 km west of Dera Murad Jamali.

The district has three sub-divisions, D.M. Jamali, Tamboo and Chattar

Administration

The district is administratively subdivided into three tehsils, these are:[1]

  • Dera Murad Jamali (HQ)
  • Chatar
  • Tamboo

Population

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Saraiki Region

Language

According to the 1998 population census of Pakistan following are the major languages of the district

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Saraiki Region of Sindh and Balochistan

Official languages are Urdu and English

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