The BNP leader is also known as Khokon Razakar for his role during the 1971 Liberation War.
The ICT-1, presided by Justice ATM Fazle Kabir, ordered his arrest on Thursday.
The tribunal also called for a copy of the charges and other relevant documents in this case by July 30.
Prosecutor Mokhlesur Rahman Badal told reporters 11 charges have been brought against Khokon which includes murder, genocide, arson, rape, loot and forcible religious conversion.
The BNP leader has gone into hiding since the war crimes investigators started their probe.
Badal said, “Zahid Hossain alias Khokon Razakar is a self-declared collaborator of the Pakistan army who had said, ‘I was a Razakar, still am, and want to die as a Razakar’.”
The formal charges say that the freedom fighters had fought a battle with the Pakistan army and its local collaborators on May 29, 1971, at Chander Haat in Faridpur. Hossain become the chief of Nagarkanda Razakar unit after the death of his brother ‘Zafar’, also a collaborator, in that battle.
The prosecution submitted the charges to ICT-1 registrar on June 23. The plea for a warrant of arrest was also submitted with the report.
According to the tribunal investigators, Khokon Razakar had campaigned for Jamaat-e-Islami in the 1970 national election. After independence, he joined the BNP and became the Vice-President of the Nagarkanda BNP unit.
He was elected mayor to the Nagarkanda Municipality in 2011 and had been absconding since taking oath.
ICT investigator Satya Ranjan Roy began probing allegations against him on Apr 16 last year. He recorded testimony of 78 people during the investigation.