Shahid Siddiqui is a researcher, critic, novelist, educationist and columnist. He has been associated with teaching for a long period of time and has held many prominent positions in different fields. Thus, Shahid Siddiqui is the writer of many books, but in the research under review, only Shahid Siddiqui's columns have been studied nostalgically. For this, not only columns and various books and articles written on nostalgia have been used, but the opinions of experts and critics have also been taken into consideration. Shahid Siddiqui's columns are published in Dunya News under the name "Zair-e-Aasmaan". Apart from this, he has been writing the editorial pages of prestigious English newspapers "Dawn" and "The News" for a long time. In this study Shahid Siddiqui's columns are examined considering the different types of nostalgia and to which type they belong. Nostalgia can be both good and bad. Excessive nostalgia becomes a psychotic illness. Shahid Siddiqui's nostalgia is not a mental illness. Its nostalgia creates a happy and literary phenomenon. Shahid Siddiqui highlights the memories of the past and leaves a positive and rich message to improve the present and the future. Mix methodology of research has been used during the study. The research has concluded that Shahid Siddiqui's columns simultaneously contain different types of nostalgia, with the dominant trend being a literary trend that creates a healthy society.

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5.            Professor Zahoor ud din, Fun-e-Sahafat, 72.

6.            Ibid, 76.

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15.            Dr. Shahid Siddiqui, Zair-e-Asman, 106-105.

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31.             Shahid Siddiqui, Pothohar: Khitta-e-Dil Ruba, 306.