There is no legal threshold in Pakistan at which a petition must be answered. What matters is not the total but who signed, and whether they are the people affected.
Relevance beats volume
Two hundred signatures from one neighbourhood, on a neighbourhood problem, are worth more than ten thousand from across the country. The first proves the request is real and local. The second proves the petition was shared widely, which is a different thing.
Officials know this distinction well, and they apply it whether or not it is stated.
A rough guide by scale
- One street or sector: most of the affected households is the target, not a big number
- A town or a district: enough to show it is not one street complaining
- A province or the whole country: volume starts to matter, alongside press attention
What the goal on your petition means
Every petition on this site carries a signature goal. It is a campaigning target that gives supporters something to aim at, not a legal threshold, and reaching it does not oblige anyone to respond.
What it does do is mark the point at which the petition, with its full record of signatures and comments, is worth formally putting to the authority you named.
Common questions
Does reaching the goal force a response?
No. No Pakistani authority is legally obliged to respond to a petition on a private platform. The goal is a campaigning target.
Can one person sign twice?
No. Signing requires a verified account and each account can endorse a petition once.