The tradition of critical translations in Urdu is not very old but its influence on Urdu criticism is very deep. All most all the critical theories has been transfered in Urdu from western literature through translations. From romantic criticism to Environmenatal criticism, translations from English nd other western languages played an important role in the initiation and evolution of contemporary trends. "Muqadma e shir o shairi" of Maulana Hali is recognized as the starting point of formal Urdu criticism. However, it is not a transltion but directly influenced by western criticism. The"Poetics"of Aristotle translated in to Urdu by different translaters with different names and be succssful to to give a new direction to Urdu criticism. Due to the Urdu translations of western criticism, new dimension are added to the creative genere of Urdu and the literary thought. This article present briefly a study of tradition of Urdu translations in criticism and its impacts on Urdu criticism.