KABUL, Feb 5: Afghan President Hamid Karzai has replaced six provincial governors after promising to rein in the powers of regional warlords, the interior ministry said on Saturday.

"The new appointments are to improve administrative reforms and to put the right persons in the right positions," Lutfullah Mashal, a spokesman for the interior ministry said.

"The reforms in other provinces will continue," Mr Mashal said.

Mr Karzai won a landslide victory in Afghanistan's first democratic presidential elections in October.

The US-backed president had pledged before the election to bring reforms within his government and to the provinces where the regional warlords hold sway.

The latest shake-up occurs in some of the northern and South-eastern provinces.-AFP