Dhaka,
\nA Bangladeshi court on Thursday ordered the arrest of former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia for skipping a scheduled appearance as the main accused in a graft case, the third such warrant issued against the country’s main opposition BNP chief in less than two months.<\/p>\n
Court officials said 72-year-old Zia was supposed to resume delivering her unfinished statement defending herself before the Dhaka’s Fifth Special Court in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case.<\/p>\n
However, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) instead announced a country-wide demonstration where it called the court order “politically motivated” and a part of a plan by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League-led government.<\/p>\n
“The judge (of Dhaka’s Fifth Special Court) issued the arrest warrant as she failed to appear as scheduled in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case once again,” a court official said.<\/p>\n
This was the third such warrant against the ex-premier since October 10 when two courts in Dhaka separately ordered her arrest after she failed to appear before them as she was in London on a private visit.<\/p>\n
She subsequently obtained bail, surrendering before the courts on her return home, he said.<\/p>\n
Zia earlier claimed that cases filed against her to be “false, motivated and imaginary made up” and aimed at harassing her.<\/p>\n
She is accused in several graft cases, including one under which she allegedly misappropriated funds of an orphanage trust named after her husband and slain President Ziaur Rahman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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