Dhaka, June 29 -- Vice Chairman of the National Consensus Commission Prof Ali Riaz on Sunday said the expected progress in reaching a consensus on reform initiatives has yet to be achieved.

"We have been discussing (reform issues) for the past seven days. Although there has been progress in various areas, the fact is that we are a bit behind in terms of desired progress," he said while presiding over the seventh day of the second-round talks of the National Consensus Commission at the Foreign Service Academy in the capital.

He said, "We need to attain this (desired) progress and no one of us wants to go back to where we were before. This is not a matter of tomorrow, the next day. This is a matter of the long term."

Prof Riaz stressed t...