Background
Josif Pashko was born into a peasant family in the village of Vodica, Kolonja.
Josif Pashko was born into a peasant family in the village of Vodica, Kolonja.
In 1938 he graduated from the Normal School at Elbasan and served as an elementary school teacher in that town from 1939-1942.
Together with his father Pashko Vodica he joined the communist-led resistance to Italian occupation in 1942, becoming a political commissar of various brigades. After the war he was involved in the armed forces, security and judicial organs. From 1950 onwards he was a deputy in the People"s Assembly.
From 1954 until his death he was a government minister in charge of construction.
During the war he joined the Communist Party of Albania (Party of Labour of Albania after 1948) and became a member of its Central Committee in 1952.