[4][5] Back then the village was part of the Ottoman Empire and belonged to the Vilayet of Janina with majority Albanian population.

[3] His family moved to Vlora after World War I, where Dosti met Avni Rustemi.

[3] In the 1920s he served a member of court of cassation of Albania under Thoma Orollogaj, who was the minister of justice at the time.

From 1932 to 1935 he was sentenced to prison because of his participation in the Movement of Vlorë, an anti-monarchist organization founded by Dosti himself and Skënder Muço among others.

[6] In 1941 he initially became Minister of Justice in Mustafa Merlika-Kruja's cabinet under Italian occupation;[7] however, in 1943 Dosti defected and joined the Balli Kombëtar.