KARACHI: The Supreme Court of Pakistan rejected on Friday petitions filed by SSP Thatta and SSP Hyderababad against their suspension and instructed the officers to resolve the cases filed against them, DawnNews reported.

A larger bench of the apex court headed by Justice Anwer Zaheer Jamali heard the  petitions submitted by the suspended officers at the Karachi registry of the Supreme Court.

In a petition submitted in the apex court's Karachi registry SSP Hyderabad Farrukh Basheer and SSP Thatta Farid Jan Sarhandi had said that they were removed from their posts in an illegal manner and had requested the court to order their reinstatement.

The court in its remarks said that it had not issued any order against any specific officer in the Karachi unrest case and that the petitioners should resolve the cases filed against them before approaching the court.

The court rejected the petition submitted by the officers requesting for their reinstatement.