Attorney General Muhammad Ishaq Aloko met members of a Taliban peace negotiation team in Dubai, despite being told by the Presidential Palace not to attend the meeting, the official said.
The meeting in Dubai was held in the first week of August and involved other prominent Afghans including members of the government's High Peace Council, which Karzai set up in 2010 to pursue talks with the Taliban.
He was instructed not to go, said the official requesting anonymity.
A prominent member of parliament also confirmed that Aloko had been sacked.
But an official in Aloko's office denied the claims that his boss had been dismissed, saying he was at the Presidential Palace celebrating Independence Day on Monday.
Peace talks between the Karzai administration and the Taliban are seen as crucial to averting another round of war as Afghanistan's Nato-led force prepares to end its decade-long military mission by the end of next year.
Talks with the Taliban began in 2010, but they have been marked by a series of missteps, delays and allegations of plotting and interference.
The senior Afghan official said some senior cabinet members were trying to persuade Karzai to reverse his decision to dismiss Aloko.
Karzai will travel to Pakistan on August 26-28 in an attempt to patch up ties and breathe life into the stalled Afghan peace process.
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