Truck driver and father-of-seven Mureed Hussain was planning for his daughter's October wedding when floodwater inundated his home, taking away the entire back wall and, with it, her hard-earned dowry. "I had been collecting her dowry for almost three years," Hussain says. Record monsoon rains have caused devastating floods across Pakistan since June, killing more than 1,200 people and leaving almost a third of the country under water, affecting the lives of 33 million. The hardest hit are the poor in rural parts of the country, who have seen their homes, belongings, life savings, and crops washed away. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES