Dhaka, July 10 -- Despite being the central issue in Thursday's second-round talks of the National Consensus Commission, discussions on the caretaker government system ended without any decision.

The commission has decided to suspend deliberations on the matter, political leaders present at the meeting said.

During the mid-day lunch break of the dialogue, they said, political parties conveyed that the structural framework of the caretaker government depends on the decisions regarding both the upper and lower houses of parliament. As such, a resolution on the upper house must be reached first.

Zonayed Saki, chief coordinator of Ganosamhati Andolan, said, "Our past experience of aligning the judiciary with the head of the caretaker gover...