Jordan’s King Abdullah has sacked Prime Minister Marouf al-Bakhit, a conservative former army general and asked Awn Khaswaneh, an international jurist, to head a new government, a senior political source said on Monday. Abdullah asked Awn Khasawneh, 61, who has been a member of the International Court of Justice since 2000, was a former chief of the royal court and a legal advisor to Jordan’s team that negotiated the peace treaty with Israel in 1994. Bakhit’s government, which came to power in February after King Abdullah sacked an unpopular prime minister after pro-reform street protests inspired by Arab uprisings.