Nasirabad District

District of Balochistan in Pakistan

Naseerabad District ضلع نصیر آباد
District of Balochistan
Map of Balochistan with Nasirabad District highlighted
Country	Pakistan
Province	Balochistan
Division	Nasirabad
Named for	Mir Nasir Khan I
Headquarters	Dera Murad Jamali
Government
• Type	District Administration
• Deputy Commissioner	Muhammad Qasim
• District Police Officer	N/A
• District Health Officer	N/A
Area
• District of Balochistan	3,387 km² (1,308 sq mi)
Population (2023)^[1]
• District of Balochistan	563,315
• Density	170/km² (430/sq mi)
• Urban	19.7%
Time zone	UTC+5 (PST)

Nasirabad (Urdu: ضلع نصیر آباد) is a district in the centre-west of Balochistan, Pakistan. The district's headquarters are located at Dera Murad Jamali. The district shares its boundaries in the east with Dera Bugti and in the west with Jhal Magsi, Jafarabad district is in the district’s south, and Bolan district is in its north.

The division is named after the Khan of Kalat, Mir Nasir Khan I, who was one of the most respected rulers of Kalat; he ruled Kalat from (1747-1794), and founded the Brahvi-Baloch Confederation, with its center in Khanate of Kalat.^[2]

Nasirabad District was first part of state of Kalat until the formation of Kalat District on February 3, 1954. Nasirabad was then seprated from Kalat district in 1974, while in 1987 the new district of Jafarabad was cleaved out of it.^[3] For three years, from July 1987 to December 1990, it was known as Tahseel Tamboo. Tamboo is a small village 40km west of Dera Murad Jamali.^[4]This District is named after Naseer Ahmed who served there as Deputy commissioner and later became Commissioner of Naseerabad Division.

Administrative divisions

Tehsils

The district is administratively subdivided into four Tehsils, these are:^[5]

Dera Murad Jamali (district headquarters)
Chhatter
Baba Kot
Tamboo

Union councils

These tehsils are further divided into union councils. Currently, there are 31 union councils and one municipal committee in the district:

Tehsil Dera Murad Jamali

Municipal Committee Dera Murad Jamali
Union Council Quba Sher Khan Sharqi
Union Council Quba Sher Khan Gharbi
Union Council Naseer Khan Umrani
Union Council Jhuder Shimali
Union Council Bedar Androon Sharqi
Union Council Bedar Gharbi
Union Council Manjhoti Sharqi
Union Council Sardar Shahzada Khan Umrani
Union Council Sikandarabad
Union Council Manjhoti Gharbi
Union Council Jhuder Janubi

Tehsil Chhatter

Union Council Chhatter
Union Council Phuleji
Union Council Shah Pur
Union Council Daulat Ghari Mir Nabi Bakhsh Khan
Union Council Daulat Ghari Mir Hassan Khosa
Union Council Shori Drabi

Tehsil Tamboo

Union Council Manjhoo Shoori
Union Council Aeri
Union Council Gola Wah
Union Council Ali Abad Shumali
Union Council Mir Behram Khan Buledi
Union Council Qadir Abad
Union Council Kharoos Wah
Union Council Fateh Mohammad
Union Council Mir Wah
Union Council Abdullah Bari
Union Council Ali Abad

Tehsil Baba Kot

Union Council Garhi Rehman
Union Council Baba Kot
Union Council Kuhna Tamboo

Demographics

Religions in Nasirabad district (2023)^[6]
Religion			Percent
Islam			99.24%
Hinduism			0.47%
Other			0.29%

Languages of Nasirabad district (2023)

Balochi (43.21%)

Brahui (22.27%)

Sindhi (21.16%)

Saraiki (12.15%)

Others (1.21%)

At the time of the 2023 census, 43.21% of the population spoke Balochi, 22.27% Brahui, 21.16% Sindhi and 12.15% Saraiki as their first language.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "Population by Mother Tongue, Sex and Rural/Urban, Census-2023" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
^ "Balochistan-Nasirabad -". Retrieved 9 August 2024.
^ PCO 1999, p. 13.
^ "BHC Dera Murad Jamali History". bhc.gov.pk. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
^ \"Tehsils & Unions in the District of Nasirabad – Government of Pakistan". Archived from the original on 26 March 2012.
^ "Population by Sex, Religion and Rural/Urban, Census - 2023" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.

Bibliography

1998 District census report of Nasirabad. Census publication. Vol. 26. Islamabad: Population Census Organization, Statistics Division, Government of Pakistan. 1999.