The two sides earlier in the day, however, settled a dispute over monitoring each other's fighters and weapons, a move which revives their peace process and power-sharing plans intended to end a bloody decade-long insurgency.

"The government-Maoists talks team refused to accept the draft today. They said they would announce the new date to receive the draft," Laxman Prasad Aryal, head of the drafting panel, told AFP.

Earlier Wednesday, Aryal had said the panel would submit the draft to the talks team despite some of the key political issues remaining unsettled.

"We don't want to take the incomplete draft. The seven parties will soon reach a common consensus and give their views to the panel and receive a final and complete draft from the panel," Home Minister Krishna Prasad Sitaula told reporters.