ISLAMABAD, a town of India in the state of Kashmir, on the north bank of the Jhelum. Pop. (1931) 10,736. It is the second town in the Kashmir valley, and was originally the capital of the valley, but is now decaying. It contains an old summer palace, overshadowed by plane trees, with numerous springs, and a fine mosque and shrine. Below the town is a reservoir containing a
spring of clear water called the Anant Nag, slightly sulphurous, from which volumes of gas continually arise ; the water swarms with sacred fish.