Like in nearby Pakistan's Balochistan province, the overwhelming majority of the city's inhabitants are ethnic Baloch who speak the Balochi lang…Like in nearby Pakistan's Balochistan province, the overwhelming majority of the city's inhabitants are ethnic Baloch who speak the Balochi language. At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 28,685 in 6,044 households. The following census in 2011 counted 35,630 people in 7,975 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 43,258 people in 9,954 households.