[5][6] In February 2004, Berisha and Kosovo minister of environment and town planning Ethem Çeku were injured in a car explosion.
One of his first acts as mayor was to inaugurate TV Diaspora, a branch of Radio Television of Kosovo (RTK) in Peja, in January 2008.
Berisha indicated that he could not prevent the Serbian vote from taking place in Peja as his authority did not extend to the municipality's Serb localities, particularly the village of Goraždevac.
"[12] In October 2009, Berisha complained that two signs reading "Welcome to Montenegro" and "Goodbye" had been put up by Montenegrin state authorities inside the territory of Kosovo.
[14] In June 2010, Berisha was quoted prominently in a Financial Times article on Peja's challenging recovery after the Kosovo War.
[15] After the 2010 Kosovan parliamentary election, Berisha took part in an AAK delegation to The Hague for a meeting with party leader Ramush Haradinaj, who was then facing a retrial before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
The delegation afterward reported that the AAK would not join a coalition government led by Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) leader Hashim Thaçi.
In the 2013 local elections, Berisha complained that little financial support had been forthcoming from Kosovo's PDK-led government in the previous term.
Berisha appeared in the sixteenth position on the AAK's list in the 2014 parliamentary election and finished tenth among the party's candidates.
[20] He was a prominent opponent of a border demarcation agreement with Montenegro that saw Kosovo cede some land it had previously claimed.
A media report from this period identifies Berisha as a leading confidant of Haradinaj and a prominent, respected figure within the AAK.