Islamabad , Pakistan ( CNN ) -- Pakistan has a new heroine and a new cause -- a girl 's right to education -- and after Friday 's announcements from the Pakistani government that they will adopt new measures to get every child into school by end 2015 , that cause has a timetable and a deadline for delivery . Everywhere you go in Pakistan you find people talking animatedly about the 15-year-old girl , Malala Yousafzai , who was shot by the Taliban last month . A rickshaw touring the streets of Islamabad has a slogan posted on it : `` Malala for education and peace . '' Go to the local girls ' school and every girl seems to have written either a poem or a song , a letter or a card to Malala . Listen to the politicians and every speech is laced with references to the courage of Malala . Meet civil society organizations and they will tell you that the audience for their educational demands has risen markedly over the last few weeks . It seems that Malala 's courage has awoken Pakistan 's silent majority who are no longer prepared to tolerate the threats and intimidations of the Pakistan Taliban . Your messages to Malala . Can Pakistan convert its momentary desire to speak out in support of Malala into a long term commitment to getting its three million girls and five million children into school ? Can the politicians , long-criticized for a failure to deliver , find the teachers , the classrooms and the reading materials to give millions of children a basic education ? This is what I talked about with Pakistan 's leaders . Meeting President Asif Ali Zardari , and in front of a 500-strong audience , many of them from the Swat Valley where Malala was shot , I presented petitions already signed by more than one million people in the international community in honor of Malala and her cause . These signatures were complemented with another one million signatures collected by Pakistani civil society 's One Million Signature Campaign to demand free and compulsory education . Another 100,000 signatures from out-of-school Pakistani children are the start of yet another one million-strong petition , this time from the children themselves demanding their right to school . A $ 1,000,000 bounty in Malala case . The president and I agreed on a series of deadlines in a plan to ensure all of Pakistan 's five million out-of-school children have the opportunity to go to school . Pakistan on Friday asked to join the Accelerated Millennium Development Goal Framework process that will allow the country to assess its current education plans , strategies and obstacles to delivery in consultation with international organizations and then work together to contribute to Pakistan 's dream of education for all . A deadline for the final draft of this accelerated plan is set for April 2013 when the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon , President of the World Bank Jim Kim and myself , alongside the heads of major international agencies such as UNESCO , UNICEF , UNDP , UNFPA and the Global Partnership for Education , will meet in Washington with the Ministers of Education and Finance of Pakistan . The aim is to match international and domestic support for realizing the 2015 goal . Suspect 's sister apologizes . Five months of intensive in-country work with the Pakistan government , civil authorities and foundations , as well as international organizations , lie ahead to ensure a detailed , budgeted plan . I have suggested to the president that he consider involving all educational groups from civil society interested in achieving the universal goal in the processes . Today there is new hope for the three million girls denied their right to schooling and a new chance to ensure the right to education for all . Pakistan and the international community are united in their goals . We now must deliver . But a more active , more engaged and more determined Pakistani people can ensure that education for all is no longer a slogan but a reality .
Schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai , shot by Taliban , inspires Pakistan to education-for-all goal . Malala leaders vow to get three million children without schooling into classes by 2015 . Taliban envoy Malala : It seems that Gordon Brown 's courage has awoken Pakistan 's silent majority . He says Pakistan , with international support , must now deliver .