The sale of bulletproof luxury vehicles, helicopters and even eight buffalo drew hundreds of curious onlookers but few buyers to an “austerity-drive” auction held by the Pakistani government this week.

The auction, which was intended to earn as much as $16 million to help fill Pakistan’s coffers, netted just $600,000 on Monday, the BBC reports.

More than 100 used cars were on the auction block at the government’s heavily-publicized fire sale. But many of the vehicles were far from ritzy, and some had been purchased as far back as the 1980s.

Only 62 vehicles found buyers, the most expensive of them a bulletproof 2015 Toyota Land Cruiser that was sold for $200,000. Four bulletproof 2005 Mercedes jeeps were also purchased, but more than a dozen other Mercedes and seven BMWs remained unsold.

The auction’s top-billing items, a pair of Mercedes Maybach S-600s acquired in 2016 under former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, were also snubbed. The cars, which were being sold for $1.3 m..

(BEIJING) — The American Chamber of Commerce in China says Beijing will “dig its heels in” after U.S. tariff hikes and appealed for a negotiated end to their trade battle.

The chamber on Tuesday warned a “downward spiral” appears certain after President Donald Trump approved a tariff hike on $200 billion of Chinese imports in a dispute over Beijing’s technology policy. China has said it will retaliate.

The chamber chairman, William Zarit, said in a statement, “Contrary to views in Washington, China can — and will — dig its heels in and we are not optimistic about the prospect for a resolution in the short term.”

The chamber appealed to both governments for results-oriented negotiations.

(BERLIN) — German doctors treating Pyotr Verzilov, a member of Russian protest group Pussy Riot, said Tuesday that claims that he was poisoned are “highly plausible,” based on his symptoms, but stressed they can’t say how this might have occurred or who was responsible

Dr. Kai-Uwe Eckardt of Berlin’s Charite hospital told reporters that Verzilov has been receiving intensive care since arriving in Berlin from Moscow on Saturday, but his condition isn’t life threatening.

Eckardt said his current symptoms and information received from relatives and the Moscow hospital he was admitted to last week “indeed make it highly plausible that a poisoning took place.”

By contrast, he said, Charite doctors have found “no evidence whatsoever that there would be another explanation for his condition.”

Eckardt said Verzilov was treated well in Moscow before being flown to Germany by private medevac. He says the symptoms indicate Verzilov is suffering from an anticholinergic syndrome that can result..