Nasirabad District
Nasirabad/Naseerabad District T-Pul |
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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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Language
According to the 1998 population census of Pakistan following are the major languages of the district
- Saraiki 40% (known as Mulki being local saraiki dialect effected by Sindhi spoken by Jamot tribes)
- Balochi 30%
- Brahui 26%
- Others 4% Punjabi, Pashto, Persian and Urdu
Official languages are Urdu and English
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