As an officer with the rank of captain, he fought in the Balkan Wars and received the German Iron Cross, 2nd Class for courage.

A close collaborator of the party's leader Ferhat Draga, his speeches in the parliament focused on the agrarian reform, which he often attacked as a policy that targeted only Albanian farmers.

During that year, his forces began to conduct war crimes against local Serb civilians and started killings of Albanians who were opposed of his rule.

[19] One of the policies that created the greatest revolt among the local Bosniak population was the prohibition of wearing the Muslim hat, fez.

[15] Hadžiahmetović used persecution of Serbs in his region of control to buy their property for very cheap prices, with the payments being done in Novi Pazar, where many did not dare to come.

[15] At another public speech, Hadžiahmetović is recorded to have said that the population which occupies all lands spanning from Raška (a town in southern Serbia) to the southernmost point of Albania is Albanian.

[15] It was also during his rule, in 1942, that the entire Jewish population of Novi Pazar – 221 individuals, were imprisoned, sent to the concentration camp Staro Sajmište and killed.

[22] A few months later, after the incorporation of Mitrovica into Albania he became a representative of the region in the Albanian parliament along with Ferhat Abidi, Hysen Hysnija and Shaban Mustafa.

German police agents noted that Hadžiahmetović was 'hiding the extent of the crimes against Serbs, refusing to persecute the perpetrators and shielding them from justice'.

[25] He was considered a collaborator with the Axis powers during World War II and was executed in 1945 by the Yugoslav government, after he was found guilty of the murder of nearly 7,000 Serbs.

This event was attended by Sulejman Ugljanin (Minister Without Portfolio of Serbia), Esad Džudžević (president of the Bosniak National Council) and Ahmedin Škrijelj (deputy mayor of Novi Pazar).

Opponents of the rehabilitation of Aćif Hadžiahmetović emphasize that he fought for Greater Albania project, that his aim was to Albanize the Bosniak population of Sandžak, that he collaborated with occupying forces of the Third Reich in the whole period of occupation during World War II, sent a number of communists from Novi Pazar into concentration camps, as well as allowed the elimination of Serbian, Jewish and Roma population of Novi Pazar.