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Kech District
— District —
Map of Balochistan with Kech District highlighted
Country	Pakistan
Province	Balochistan
Capital	Kech
Established
Government
- District Nazim	Abdul Rauf Rind
- District Naib Nazim	Murad Jan
Time zone	PST (UTC+5)
District Council
Number of Tehsils	4

Kech (Urdu: کیچ) or Turbat district is in the south west of Balochistan, province of Pakistan. Kech was notified as a district, with its name as Turbat, on July 1, 1977, when Makrandistrict was given the status of a division and was divided into three districts. Previously it was one of the 3 tehsils of Makran District. In 1995, the name of the district was changed from Turbat to Kech, the old name for the area, when even Awaran was part of it. For administrative purposes, Kech district is divided into 4 sub-divisions, i.e., Turbat, Buleda, Dasht, and Tump. Turbat sub-division is further divided into Turbat tehsil and Hoshab. Buleda sub-division comprises 2 sub-tehsils Bit Buleda and Niwano. Sub-division Dasht comprises Dasht Kuddanand Balnigore sub-tehsils and Tump sub-division has two tehsils, Tump and Mand. Kech, the land of a romance legend, has always been a place of importance for its geographical location.

[edit]Administration

The district of Kech is administratively subdivided into the following tehsils:^[1]

• Buleda
• Dasht
• Mand
• Tump

[edit]Population

The population of Kech was estimated to be over 750,000 in 2005 over 99% of the people of the area are Muslims. The whole population has always been rural. The main Baloch tribes in the district are the Gichki, Pogh, Naushervani, Buledai Mir, Hoth, Khushk, Rais, Rind, Sangur, Lundi, Kattawar, Kauda, Bizanjo and Darzada.^{[citation needed]} TUMP Tump is very famous tehsil of district kech there are so many villages and union council in tump after the turbat tehsil tump tehsil is begaining from Hothabad village and going end last border of Iran called Mand

villages names (1)Hothabad (2)Meer abad (3)Balicha (4)Rodbune (5)Asiabad (6)Nizarabad (7)Malikabad (8)konshkalath (9)Tump (10)Dazin (11)Aziyan (12)Mand (13)kohadw (14)puhlabad (15)Malant (16)Apsikahan

Tump village is the center of all activities tehsiloffice unionazim Banks Electricity station Telephone main Exchange Civil hospital Collage and many offices are in Tump. Banks in Tump there are four banks in tump now working are MCB (Muslim Commercial Bank) United Bank Limited Agriculrual Bank Allied Bank Limited

Asiabad meaning: in Balochi Asia means Jinther (2 big stone baloch people using chopping wheat and rice)is called jinther from our forthefather Nhing Haar bring this one piece of jinter so people called this village Asiab Asiabad is one of the Tehsil tump village is very pupolar in the area.there is one High School with beautifl building. Famous river NEHING also pass this village

Key Person of Asiabad Hikmat ullah Baloch Haji Yar Muhammad Master AbdulRehman Mohd Siddiqe Mohd Durra Seat Khan Mohd FidaAhmadAli ElahiBukshFida KhudaBakshJaved and many more

Poets in Asiabad Waja ElahiBakshFida KhadaBakshJaved DostMohdDanish KhanFarhad and ZafarIzath and many more...