Twenty first century is a century of cities and it is obvious from world’s urbanization pace that global landscape is urbanizing expeditiously. According to UN Habitat, presently 55 percent of the global population is residing in urban settlements and it is projected to be 68 percent in 2050. The unprecedented pace of urbanization coupled with unplanned development has turned cites into jungles of concrete. Cities are encroaching prime agriculture and green zones of this planet. Inevitably, urbanization has brought several environmental problems in its trial i.e. deforestation, ominous water crisis, increasing demand for energy, urban flash flooding, heat waves, smog and swelling earth temperature. Several international studies highlighted that urban settlements on this planet are contributing 70 to 80 percent greenhouse gas emissions and wreaking havoc on global ecology. As a result, these looming ecological crises have erupted the phenomenon of climate change on this planet. This grim situation stimulated the strong association among cities and climatic changes. The World Metrological Organization advised the nomenclature of “climate change” which comprehended all kinds of climatic changes. United Nations Frame Work Convention on Climate Change elucidated that the anomaly of climate change primarily evolved due to human interventions such as burning fossil fuels and industrialization. Over the decades, these manmade activities are altering the global climatic patterns. The adverse impacts of climate change are striking all over the globe; particularly Asia and Africa are more vulnerable and prone to the natural calamities. Globally, every year more than 12 million land become infertile due to the devastations of floods. Perennial increase in global temperature exacerbated the extreme weather events like perilous rainfall, urban flash flooding droughts, heat waves and displacement of masses. Climate change has immensely modified the global water system through regional flash flooding. Resultantly, climate change has become inexorable phenomenon and its associated impacts on global landscape are quite conspicuous. From the last two decades, Pakistan has become a hotbed for climatic trepidations due to myopic governance along with futile city and regional planning policies. According to the 2018, statistics of Global Climate Index Pakistan has listed among top 10 countries, which are most vulnerable to climatic maledictions and extreme natural disasters. Ministry of climate Change has argued that the average temperature is rising in Pakistan rapidly then rest of the countries. The World Bank reported that Pakistan is suffering from 3.86 billion damages annually due to the climatic changes. The recurring tendency of natural disasters in Pakistan is be laboring the urban economy, destroying agriculture sector and muddling the livelihoods of the masses. In 2010 flood, more than 15 million people smashed, 515 health centers damaged and 1.1 million shelters shattered in this disaster. As a result, the overall economic loss reached over 9.7 billion. Swelling average temperature and proliferation of heat waves in Pakistan further exacerbated the natural disasters. The moronic water management system of urban areas is detrimental for highly dense areas, urban infrastructure and other public utilities. The grave situation of climatic changes triggered the idea of climate resilient cities at international forums and incited urban planners to realize cities planning and designing through climate resilience lens The economy of Pakistan is predominantly dependent on agriculture and it contributes 21 percent share in GDP. Noticeably, agriculture sector ingest 47 percent labor force of the country. The agriculture sector is a major host of adverse impacts of climatic ruinations due to the abortive water management framework in Pakistan. Exiguous dams with poor quality of riverbanks has geared the flooding phenomenon. Every year, the natural calamities like flooding during monsoon season chastise the agriculture sector and disturb cities, which is a major economic source of the country. Cities are stepping stone for the eradication of pernicious climatic impacts because urban settlements are the prime contributor of anthropogenic emissions. The grave situation of climatic changes triggered the idea of climate resilient cities at international forums and incited urban planners to realize cities planning and designing through climate resilience lens. Land use and building control practices are important tool for the adaptation of climatic changes. Building and land use byelaws can ensure the elements of sustainability such as enforce rainwater-harvesting practices at individual household level, urban farming, and multimodal public transport planning which discourage the usage of cars. Further, rainwater harvesting has gained prominence globally and used as a heuristics solution for combating the devastations of urban flash flooding. Rainwater harvesting is a systematic process of rainwater collection from the rooftops of the buildings and surface run off by pipes and storage tanks installed in buildings. The water preserved from rainwater harvesting process has potential to be used for the domestic, commercial and agricultural purposes except drinking. All public buildings, recreational parks, and other public places must be adapted to the rainwater harvesting system in first phase and then at second stage, the development authorities should enforce the provision of rainwater harvesting in all housing units. The present government has launched clean and green Pakistan drive, which is a good step towards climate resilience. However, only plantation drive is not a complete solution for this monster anomaly of climatic changes. There is dire need to develop a multipronged policy framework and building byelaws for the mitigation and adaptation of climatic impacts at all administrative tiers. The town planning practitioners and urban designers should direct local development agencies for the adaptation of environment friendly spatial and infrastructure planning. Government should knock the doors of urban planners and urban economist for the development of climate resilience framework at local administrative tiers. Stringent measures for the adaptation of climatic changes are need of the hour. Climate change phenomenon is a ticking tomb that can topple national economy if this issue not gained gravity at legislation benches. The writer is an urban policy analyst