A Bangladeshi Court today ordered the arrest of former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia for skipping a scheduled appearance as the main accused in a graft case. This is the third such warrant issued against the country's main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chief in less than two months. Court officials said, 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.<br/><br/>However, the 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.<br/><br/>Zia earlier claimed that cases filed against her to be false, motivated and imaginary made up and aimed at harassing her.