Nasirabad Division has made a significant contribution to both national and provincial politics, producing a prime minister of the country (Zafarullah Khan Jamali), as well as hosting some of the key families in Balochistan politics, including the Jamalis, the Magsis and the Rinds.

Consisting of five districts, the division has two National Assembly seats: NA-260 (Nasirabad-cum-Kachhi-cum-Jhal Magsi) and NA-261(Jaffarabad­-cum-Sohbat­pur).

As background interviews with journalists and political observers familiar with the region reveal, rather than the ideological leanings or programmes of political parties, what drives the area’s politics is the complex relations between and within Nasirabad’s powerful families and clans, as well as the division’s agricultural economy.

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