He co-founded the Democratic Party of Albania in 1990 and later served as rector of the University of New York, Tirana.

Gramoz Pashko decided to rejoin the Democratic Party, undergoing a vote on the structures of the latter.

Pashko hit his head on 16 July 2006 while diving in the sea in Himara, southern Albania.

[4][5] The Bell 222 helicopter transporting him to Bari, Italy, for medical treatment crashed over the Adriatic Sea.

[4] Six people died in the crash: the two pilots, an engineer, a doctor; Pashko and his son Ruben, who was traveling with him.