ISIL Flags Waved at Protest in India's Kashmir

Islamic State (ISIL) flags appeared during a protest in the Indian province Kashmir.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Flags of the Islamic State (ISIL) extremist group were waved along with those of Pakistan on Saturday during a protest over the detention of a separatist party leader in the capital of India-administered Jammu and Kashmir, Indian media reported.

Syed Ali Shah Geelani, founder of the Tehreek-e-Hurriyat party, is under house arrest over anti-India protests, alongside another separatist leader, Masarat Alam, for making anti-national slogans at a rally in the Jammu and Kashmir state.

According to the Times of India, police used truncheons and tear gas to disperse protesters in the streets of Srinagar.

Kashmiri Muslims protesters hold representation of a Pakistani flag, right, and an Islamic flag as they clash with Indian policemen and paramilitary soldiers during a protest near Eidgah, or an open-air mosque, in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Saturday, July 18, 2015

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Protests have reportedly broken out in other parts of the state.

The killing of a young man in a shootout with police sparked the current wave of protests in India's Jammu and Kashmir, beginning on Monday.

The Jammu and Kashmir region has been disputed by India and Pakistan since the end of British rule in 1947. Following several armed conflicts, the two countries agreed to a ceasefire in 2003. Since then, both sides have repeatedly blamed each other for violating the truce.