Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai Wednesday spoke to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh [Images] and assured that security of all Indians working in his country would be beefed up in the wake of the killing of M R Kutty by the Taliban.

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In a telephonic conversation shortly after the decapitated body of Kutty, a driver with the Border Road Organisation, was found in Delaram district five days after his abduction, Karzai expressed his condolences over the killing.

He assured Dr Singh that security for all Indians in Afghanistan would strengthened, External Affairs Ministry spokesman Navtej Sarna told reporters. During the conversation Karzai said that Afghanistan valued highly India's assistance in its reconstruction.

Dr Singh thanked Karzai for the call and said that India's resolve to assist Afghanistan remained unshaken, Sarna said.