As Pakistan’s opposition party rejoiced over the ousting of the country’s prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif – the contender to likely replace Imran Khan – had a message for the new era.

“We want to put balm on people’s wounds. We will not take revenge, won’t do injustice to anybody. We won’t put innocent people into jail,” he said while speaking at the National Assembly on Sunday, adding, “…but the law will do its work, neither I nor Bilawal (Pakistan People Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zadari) interferes into it.”

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Voting on no-trust motion took place well past midnight. Members of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) staged a walkout from the house.

Today is a day of joy,” he said. “We will run this country along with the organization.”

Chairperson of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), Bilawal Bhutto Zardari also addressed the assembly later.

“Welcome back to purana (old) Pakistan,” Bhutto said.

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Earlier on Saturday, Sharif said on Twitter: “It appears Niazi & his cohort are bent upon committing the contempt of court by not allowing voting. History will remember him as a sham character who violated the Constitution again and again & with impunity. Is his ego bigger than the whole country?”

The 70-year-old is the younger brother of three-time Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. He served as the chief minister of Punjab thrice, making him the longest-serving CM of the province.

After a deadlock reached in the National Assembly on Saturday over the no-trust vote, former Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif’s daughter called Khan a psychopath.

“A maniac’s fear of having to face the music has brought the entire country to a grinding halt & a complete standstill. The country of 22 crore is without a government for weeks now. This blatant violation of the constitution and disregard to SC orders will be ugly and end badly,” she wrote on Twitter.