Sir: The practice of grabbing government lands is no more a city phenomenon only, rather it has been extended to villages too. People have illegally occupied hundreds of acres of government lands. They have further sold these pieces of land to other people after occupation. In my village (139-RB Gharbi Faisalabad), at the time of my childhood abundant place was available for younger people to play on; now nothing is available. If the government really was disinterested in this land, it should have distributed it on merit to landless farmers. Now some families have occupied more than two acres and some are homeless (homelessness once was a rare phenomenon in villages) and they do not possess a single foot to build their homes. MUHAMMAD ASHTARIslamabad