Will Pahalgam attack prolong detention of Kashmiri political prisoners?

Supporters celebrate the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference party's victory in last year's legislative polls [File: Mehran Firdous/Al Jazeera]

Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir – Shakeela remembers being upbeat and hopeful that evening.

As officials in Indian-administered Kashmir counted votes cast in the regional assembly election in October last year, a quiet optimism settled over the 50-year-old mother, who had been waiting for more than three years for her only son, 24-year-old Faizyaab, to be freed from an Indian jail.