Explanation

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. Dera Murad Jamali, often abbreviated as D.M. Jamali, is a city located in Nasirabad District in Balochistan, Pakistan, It’s the Divisional Headquarters of Nasirabad Division