She worked in information technology with the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) in 1998–99 and oversaw her own business in the same field from 1999 to 2004.
The LDK won the election and afterward formed a coalition government with the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK); ORA served in opposition, and Sahatqija led its parliamentary group.
[4] In November 2007, Sahatqija took part in a two-day summit in Vienna convened by Austrian foreign affairs minister Ursula Plassnik that included representatives of Kosovo's Serb and Albanian communities.
Sahatqija and Vesna Jovanović, a parliamentarian from the Serbian List for Kosovo and Metohija, both spoke of the difficulties in achieving meaningful dialogue between their communities.
With reference to an impending Serb boycott of Pristina's electoral institutions due to Kosovo's drive for independence, Sahatqija was quoted as saying, "Reconciliation needs both sides.
ORA founder Veton Surroi resigned as party leader after the 2007 election, and plans to recruit Agim Çeku as his replacement ultimately failed.
Sahatqija was vice-president of the committee for economic development, infrastructure, trade, and industry, and chaired the cross-party women's parliamentary caucus.
[26] In 2021, two unofficial diplomatic documents were circulated that did not rule out the partition of Kosovo in a final settlement agreement with Serbia.