Swathes of eastern Pakistan were inundated this month, with some 100,000 evacuated, after the Sutlej river burst its banks spilling over hundreds of villages and thousands of acres. With the water slowly receding, a ramshackle armada of 40 boats makes twice-daily food and aid deliveries to 80 water-bound villages where men perch on roofs guarding sodden possessions. "Our cattle are begging us for food, but we have nothing to give them. The walls of our houses have fallen, the roofs have collapsed," says Taj Bibi, who was affected by the flood. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES