Zulfikarpašić returned to Bosnia and Herzegovina and in the lead up to the Bosnian War, as Bosnia and Herzegovina held an independence referendum for independence,[when?] he stood alongside the future Bosnian president, Alija Izetbegović.[6] He was a member of Izetbegović’s Party of Democratic Action, but soon formed another party because of differing political views, the Muslim Bosniak Organization with Muhamed Filipović.[7]