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 Tipel, 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 two sub-divisions, D.M. Jamali and Chattar and 1 tehsil, Tamboo. Furhter it is divided into 163 sub-tehsils and 14 mozas. One moza exists of 1 to 5 villages.

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