[7] The LDK won the 2004 Kosovan parliamentary election and afterward formed a coalition government with the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK).
[9] In September of the same year, Haraqija travelled to Belgrade for what were described as "very cordial and constructive" talks with Serbian minister of culture Dragan Kojadinović.
[11] In 2006, the Kosovo government held a public ceremony in Pristina to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the 11 September 2001 attacks in the United States of America.
Haraqija described the event as demonstrating the solidarity of Kosovars with the American people; during the ceremony, he described the United States as the "promoter and protector of the world democracy."
[12] In May 2007, Haraqija met with Albanian minister of culture Ylli Pango regarding plans to welcome American president George W. Bush to Tirana the following month.
Although Thaçi's coalition government included the LDK, Haraqija was not reappointed to cabinet, and his term ended when the new ministry took office.
In April 2008, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) published a previously sealed indictment against Haraqija and his assistant Bajrush Morina on the charge of intimidating a witness.
Haraqija was accused of misuse of a public position during his time as minister of culture; the specific charges related to his ministry's decision to provide three hundred thousand Euros for two film projects that were never completed.
[29] In May 2016, Ukë Rugova, Haraqija, and nineteen others were indicted on charges of organized crime involving trafficking immigrants and the sale of counterfeit visas to Italy.
[30] Haraqija presented a different interpretation of these events in a subsequent interview, saying that he began issuing visas for the benefit of specific people, mainly from Gjakova, with the support of Ibrahim Rugova in 1995.
[31] The case against Ukë Rugova, Haraqija, and the others accused was initially overseen by the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX).
[32] The matter was ultimately transferred to the Republic of Kosovo's courts; in November 2023, Ukë Rugova, Haraqija, and the others pleaded not guilty.
In a January 2017 interview, he recalled Rugova's dying words of advice to him: "Our greatest luck is that we managed to have the USA as friends.