Dhaka, July 3 -- National Consensus Commission Vice Chairman Prof Ali Riaz on Thursday said the opportunity for reform, earned through immense sacrifices, must not be wasted, urging political parties to engage constructively to reach decisions on nearly 20 unresolved core issues.

"We have reached here (to reform dialogue) by overcoming immense repression and paying many lives. We are now at a stage of possibility that we never saw before. This is a chance we should waste," he said while inaugurating the ninth day of the second-round reform talks at the Foreign Service Academy in the capital.

The discussion began around 11:10am at the Foreign Service Academy in the capital with Prof Ali Riaz in the chair.

Referring to the first phase of...