ISLAMABAD: Karim Khan, a British lawyer of Pakistani origin, has been elected the next chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC), the court’s governing body announced on Saturday. Khan, 50, currently heads a United Nations investigation into war crimes committed by Daesh in Iraq. He is succeeding Gambian judge Fatou Bensouda and will begin his nine-year term at the court in the Hague in June. “Mr. Karim Khan (United Kingdom) has been elected in the second round as the next ICC Prosecutor. Warm congratulations!” O-Gon Kwon, president of the Assembly of States Parties of the ICC, said in a Twitter post. Khan has previously worked for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. TLTP
