The Pestovë ambush was an attack perpetrated by Serbian Police Units (MUP) to eliminate Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) founder Zahir Pajaziti and his fellow commanders Edmond Hoxha and Hakif Zejnullahu.

[1][2] On January 31, 1997, Kosovo Liberation Army commander Pajaziti and his assistants Edmond Hoxha and Hakiz Zejnulahhu were traveling in the same car together on the highway from Prishtina to Mitrovica.

In the village of Pestovë, Yugoslav policemen set up an ambush and opened fire on the car, killing all three.

[2][3] The car in which they were killed in is stored as an artifact in the courtyard of the first KLA military base, in a village of Podujevë.

[3] He is commemorated by a statue on Mother Teresa Boulevard in Pristina.