In US, more than 50,000 new signatures have been added to the White House petition, seeking to designate Pakistan a state sponsor of terrorism. With a total 6,65,769 signatures, the Petition is believed to be the most popular White House petition so far as the highest number of signatures received by any White House petition had not crossed 3,50,000. <br/><br/>The online petition "We the people ask the administration to declare Pakistan, State Sponsor of Terrorism," was launched by the Indian-American community.<br/><br/>The petition had already reached the mandatory threshold of 1 lakh to earn a response from the Obama administration and was archived by the White House with 6,13,830 signatures. The White House is expected to have an official response to the petition within stipulated 60 days. <br/><br/>Meanwhile, Baloch-Americans have also launched their own petition on "Free Balochistan from Pakistan's illegal occupation".

In US, more than 50,000 new signatures have been added to the White House petition, seeking to designate Pakistan a state sponsor of terrorism. With a total 6,65,769 signatures, the Petition is believed to be the most popular White House petition so far as the highest number of signatures received by any White House petition had not crossed 3,50,000. <br/><br/>The online petition "We the people ask the administration to declare Pakistan, State Sponsor of Terrorism," was launched by the Indian-American community.<br/><br/>The petition had already reached the mandatory threshold of 1 lakh to earn a response from the Obama administration and was archived by the White House with 6,13,830 signatures. The White House is expected to have an official response to the petition within stipulated 60 days. <br/><br/>Meanwhile, Baloch-Americans have also launched their own petition on "Free Balochistan from Pakistan's illegal occupation".

More than 50,000 new signatures have been added to the final count of the White House petition seeking to designate Pakistan a state sponsor of terrorism. The petition asking the administration to declare Pakistan, State Sponsor of Terrorism was archived by the White House on Monday with 613,830 signatures.<br/><br/>In the process, it became the first-ever petition to cross half a million mark. A day after it was closed for signature, the final count stood at 665,769 signatures.<br/><br/>This is believed to be the most popular White House petition so far as the highest number of signatures received by any White House petition so far had not crossed 350,000. The White House is expected to have an official response to the petition within stipulated 60 days.<br/><br/>With various groups both inside and outside the US actively campaigning on the social media for people to support the petition, the signature count increased at a fast pace, sometimes more than 100,000 signatures in less than 24 hours.