| leader2_title = Politburo Presidium | leader2_name =
* Kim Jong-un
* Choe Ryong-hae
* Pak Pong-ju | leader3_title = Vice Chairmen | leader3_name =
* Pak Kwang-ho
* Pak Thae-song
* Thae Jong-su
* Pak Thae-dok
* An Jong-su
* Choe Hwi | youth_wing =
* KKYL
* KCU | wing1_title = Armed wing| wing1 = KPA| wing2_title = Paramilitary wing| wing2 = WPRG| wing3_title = Supreme organ| wing3 = CCWPK| foundation = 30 June 1949 | merger =
* WPNK
* WPSK | headquarters = Forbidden City, Pyongyang| newspaper = Rodong Sinmun| membership_year = 2015| membership = 4 million | ideology =
* Juche
* Songun | position = Far-left| national = DFRF| international = IMCWP| seats1_title = Supreme People's Assembly | seats1 = 607 / 687 | colors = Red| flag = | country = North Korea| blank3_title = Status | blank3 =
* Active: Ruling party in North Korea
* Outlawed in South Korea under the National Security Act | website = Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the WPK Central Committee | anthem = "Long Live the Workers' Party of Korea"Korean: "조선로동당만세" | abbreviation = WPK| logo_size = 135px}} The Workers' Party of Korea (Korean: 조선로동당; Hanja: 朝鮮勞動黨; abbr. WPK) is the founding and ruling political party of North Korea. It is the largest party represented in the Supreme People's Assembly and coexists de jure with two other legal parties making up the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland. However, these minor parties are completely subservient to the WPK, and must accept the WPK's "leading role" as a condition of their existence. WPK was founded in 1949 with the merger of the Workers' Party of North Korea and the Workers' Party of South Korea. The WPK also controls the Korean People's Army. WPK (and all of the other parties in the DPRK) remains illegal in South Korea under South Korea's own National Security Act and is sanctioned by Australia, the European Union, the United Nations and the United States. The WPK is organized according to the Monolithic Ideological System and the Great Leader, a system and theory conceived by Kim Yong-ju and Kim Jong-il. The highest body of the WPK is formally the Congress, but in practice a Congress occurs infrequently. Between 1980 and 2016, there were no congresses held. Although the WPK is organizationally similar to communist parties, in practice it is far less institutionalized and informal politics plays a larger role than usual. Institutions such as the Central Committee, the Executive Policy Bureau, the Central Military Commission (CMC), the Politburo and the Politburo's Presidium have much less power than that formally bestowed on them by the party's charter, which is little more than a nominal document. Kim Jong-un is the current WPK leader, serving as Chairman and CMC chairman. The WPK is committed to Juche, an ideology which has been described as a combination of collectivism and nationalism; and at the 4th Conference (held in 2012), the party charter was amended to state that Kimilsungism–Kimjongilism was "the only guiding idea of the party". At the 3rd Conference (held in 2010), the WPK removed a sentence from the preamble which expressed the party's commitment "to building a communist society", replacing it with a new adherence to Songun, the "military-first" policies developed by Kim Jong-il. The 2009 revision had already removed all references to communism. Party ideology has recently focused on perceived imperialist enemies of the party and state; and on legitimizing the Kim family's dominance of the political system. Before the rise of Juche and later Songun, the party was committed to Marxist–Leninist thought as well, with its importance becoming greatly diminished over time. The party's emblem is an adaptation of the communist hammer and sickle, with a traditional Korean calligraphy brush. The symbols represent the industrial workers (hammer), peasants (sickle) and intelligentsia (ink brush).

Rade Drainac, born Radojko Jovanović, (Serbian Cyrillic: Раде Драинац; 26 August 1899 – 1 May 1943), was a poet of the Serbian literature.

| leader2_title = Politburo Presidium | leader2_name =
* Kim Jong-un
* Choe Ryong-hae
* Pak Pong-ju | leader3_title = Vice Chairmen | leader3_name =
* Pak Kwang-ho
* Pak Thae-song
* Thae Jong-su
* Pak Thae-dok
* An Jong-su
* Choe Hwi | youth_wing =
* KKYL
* KCU | wing1_title = Armed wing| wing1 = KPA| wing2_title = Paramilitary wing| wing2 = WPRG| wing3_title = Supreme organ| wing3 = CCWPK| foundation = 30 June 1949 | merger =
* WPNK
* WPSK | headquarters = Forbidden City, Pyongyang| newspaper = Rodong Sinmun| membership_year = 2015| membership = 4 million | ideology =
* Juche
* Songun

Quetta (the word derives from kwatta, Pashto for fort) is a natural fort, surrounded as it is by imposing hills on all sides. The encircling hills have the resounding names of Chiltan, Takatoo, Mordar and Zarghun. The early recorded history of Quetta begins with the Hindu Sewa Dynasty. The Hindu Sewa dynasty ruled Quetta and much of Baluchistan up until the 7th century AD. The Sibi division carved out of Quetta division still derives its name from Rani Sewi, the queen of the Hindu Sewa dynasty. It is believed that the earliest Muslim inhabitants and rulers/owners of the city were the Pashtun Kasi Tribe. Quetta was first mentioned in the 11th century when it was captured by Mahmood of Ghazni on one of his invasions of the subcontinent. In 1543 the Mughal emperor Humayun rested here on his retreat to Persia, leaving his one-year-old son Akbar until he returned two years later. The Ghilzai power in Kandahar at the beginning of the eighteenth century, simultaneously with that of the Baloch in Kalat, Quetta and Pishin became the battle-ground between the Afghans and Baloch in the region.Ahmed Shah Durrani finally handed Quetta over to the Khan of Kalat Mir Noori Naseer Khan Baloch for helping him with his army in 1751 against the Marathas in the Battle of Panipat (1761), and against the Sikhs in 1765. Today, it is an important city in Pakistan. Quetta has more than 50% pashtoon population mainly Kasi, Kakar, Daavi, tareen, Achakzai, etc.

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