Mr Berger posits that the elevated level of alcohol was a side-effect of Haider's extreme physical fitness.
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Ali Haider - a candidate for the Pakistan Peoples' Party (PPP) - was seized in the central city of Multan, Mr Gilani said.
Blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider, a 30-year-old architect, was found dead near the gate of his home on Friday night, a local police official, Abdul Latif Sheikh, said.
This week Haider al-Ameri, a senior figure in the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, a key party in the ruling Shia-led alliance, annoyed Mr Maliki by saying there was little evidence of direct Iranian interference.
But xenophobia alone, even allied to Mr Haider's undeniable skill as a tub-thumper, would have been nothing like enough to put him so close to government power.
But the Freedom Party's recent entry into government, which Mr Haider presents as a healthy break with the post-war duopoly, has led to Austria's boycott by its fellow EU governments.
Following Mr Haider's death last week a series of blog posts described as anti-Islamic have circulated, but their authorship was not immediately clear.
Ali Haider - the youngest son of the ex-prime minister - is contesting a seat in the Punjab provincial assembly.
And Haider's Alliance party romped to victory in Carinthian local elections on a wave of post-mortem sentiment, taking 45% of the vote in March.
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Being the junior partner in a moderate government had weakened the appeal of Mr Haider's party to its core constituency, disgruntled blue-collar workers and others, such as small farmers and shopkeepers, who feel threatened by modernisation.
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Also rested were opener Imran Farhat, pacemen Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif and wicketkeeper Zulqarnain Haider - while injured seamer Umar Gul is set to miss the rest of the Test series with a torn hamstring.
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