Dera Murad Jamali

Dera Murad Jamali, often shortened to D.M. Jamali, is a city in Balochistan, Pakistan. It is the district headquarters of Nasirabad District and the divisional headquarters of Nasirabad Division. Until 1974 the area belonged to Kalat District, and in that year Nasirabad District was created and the city became its headquarters. The place was originally called Temple Dera after Captain H. M. Temple, a British civil servant who served as Political Agent for Sibi in 1891 and 1892, and local people still know it as Tipul, a corruption of the word temple. The 2023 census counted 106,952 people in the city. Languages spoken across the wider subdivision include Sindhi, Balochi, Saraiki and Brahui. The city has a railway station on the Rohri to Chaman line.