Shams ur Rahman Farooqi is a contemporary renowned critic of Urdu literature especially of Urdu fiction. He enjoys an established recognition as a critic, researcher and writer. But his main claim to fame is criticism.  He has a close relation with modernist movement of literature and is a serious reader of Urdu's famous genera of the past i.e., Dastaan. So he has seen the Urdu short story from different angle. The article is a study of his principles of fiction criticism which he expressed in his different articles.