SHOW me the names and faces of the dead in Peshawar.

Show me them in their dozens, enough to obliterate that photograph of their killers.

Tell me the stories of those who died for no reason at all, without any justification from any god.

Let their stories drown out the murderous hate of the Pakistani Taliban.

Look at the photograph of Mobeen Shah Afridi a high achiever at school, who wanted to be a doctor or engineer.

He was killed - shot in the back of his head - while trying to escape through a window. His funeral took place early on Wednesday.

The 20-year-old had been memorising the Koran.

A Facebook memorial page set up in his name had already attracted more than 20,000 likes just a few hours after the atrocity His cover photograph on the Facebook page read: "We are a nation of beauty and great grief. Our smile is much stronger than your gun."

Listen to the stories of the students and their teachers.

Sher Shah, a student believed to be 14 or 15 years old, was a student at the Army Public School (APS). Killed by the Taliban at the school.

Usman Sadique Abbasi, a Class 10 student who was at the school with high hopes of academic achievement on Wednesday morning. Dead within hours. His body was returned to his home town of Abbottabad for burial.

Teenagers Rafiq Bangash and Mohammad Yassin. Mohammad, 15, a keen amateur photographer. Both dead.

Teacher Afsha Ahmed, 24, who confronted the gunmen when they burst into her classroom and told them: "You can only kill my students over my dead body."

Sofia Amjad, a lecturer at the school, was married to a Peshawar lawyer. Local media said the next big landmark in her life would have been to see her daughters married.

Tahira Qazi, principal of the Army Public School.

One tribute on a social media site from a pupil said his heart was bleeding and he tweeted: "my beloved teacher Ms.Tahira Qazi, you r a martyr!!" as he posted a picture of them together.

She was among nine teachers and staff believed to have been killed in the Taliban attack. Ms Qazi was known to be one of the most experienced head teachers in the city, running the elite school.

In 2012, Ms Qazi was awarded the principal of the year award for "achieving excellence and showing professional exuberance in her duty".

She ushered many students to safety.

She called up some parents urging them to come and collect their children. The exact circumstances of Ms Qazi's death remain unclear.

Saeed Khan, teacher, buried late on Tuesday night in Peshawar. The Bin Qutab Foundation said that Mr Khan was a donor and supported its philanthropic efforts.

There are so many more, so many I could not do them justice here.

Slaughtered innocents.

Executed for no other reason than they were students or teachers in an army school, an order given by the same fanatic who ordered the shooting of the schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai just because she wanted to go to school.

Most of them children.

And then, there are the survivors, terrified to go back to school, some maimed by gunshots, minds scarred by the horror they have witnessed.

Pakistan's prime minister Nawaz Sharif has vowed to rid his country of terrorism.

The government has an important role to play in ensuring the families of the dead and injured get justice.

The army can take out Taliban sites and operatives, there can be a greater concentration on combatting the preaching of extremist hate.

But so have the ordinary people.

The horror of Peshawar seems to have done something which Pakistan's government has been unable to do before - to unite its people in widespread revulsion against the violence which has been all too prevalent in the country.

The greatest weapon against any terrorist organisation is to isolate it from the communities which might have any sympathy for it.

It's happening with the murderous brutality of the so-called Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, and it is happening with the Pakistani Taliban.

Starve them of sympathy, starve them of funds, starve of them of places for its killers to get food, shelter and to spread their hate.

Sever their links with other foreign groups which might have once felt the same - it says it all when the Afghan Taliban have condemned the attack as un-Islamic.

Bring them to justice.

Do not let them stop the education of young people.

Let the smiles of the young victims like Mobeen Shah Afridi be stronger than their guns and bombs.