Nasirabad District

Nasirabad/Naseerabad District T-Pul
District
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 tree 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

The population of Nasirabad district is estimated to be over 1037,000 in 2013. Over 98% of the people of the area are Muslims.

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

See also

• Nasirabad

References

Districts of Balochistan, Pakistan Provincial capital Quetta Districts Awaran Barkhan Bolan Chagai Dera Bugti Gwadar Harnai Jafarabad Jhal Magsi Kalat Kech Kharan Khuzdar Kohlu Lasbela Loralai Mastung Musakhel Nasirabad Nushki Panjgur Pishin Qilla Abdullah Qilla Saifullah Quetta Sherani Sibi Washuk Zhob Ziarat

Coordinates: 27°22′48″N 67°54′59″E / 27.38000°N 67.91639°E / 27.38000; 67.91639