Resigned to a rhetorical swipe of defiance, it’s now apparent that Asad Qaiser’s final words as speaker achieved their desired effect: to the streets he plead, and to the streets they dutifully came. A bruising constitutional crisis now threatens to bleed; the ghosts of Pakistan’s history once again exhumed. But this matters not for Imran Khan and his diminished parliamentary minority, their minds had long been made. In their millions, Khan’s inconsolable defenders lined the streets of Pakistan, Dubai, Doha, even London. Blindly, they’ve promised to fight the no-confidence ruling like ‘cornere…