Josif Pashko (May 25, 1918 - September 5, 1963) was an Albanian politician during the country's socialist period.

Josif Pashko was born into a peasant family in the village of Vodica, Kolonja.

Together with his father Pashko Vodica he joined the communist-led resistance to Italian occupation in 1942, becoming a political commissar of various brigades.

After the war he was involved in the armed forces, security and judicial organs.

His son Gramoz Pashko was an economist who co-founded the Democratic Party of Albania in 1990.