**A senior UN official in Afghanistan has been removed from his post following a row about how to handle the country’s disputed election, the BBC has learned.**Peter Galbraith had angered Afghan President Hamid Karzai by criticising the country’s election commission.
Mr Galbraith was said to have called for a wholesale recount of the votes.
Last week the top UN Afghan envoy, Kai Eide, said Mr Galbraith had left the country after a row between them, but he denied he had ordered him to go.
UN sources say Secretary General Ban Ki-moon decided to end Mr Galbraith’s mission after it became clear he was no longer able to carry out his work in Afghanistan, says the BBC’s Lyse Doucet.
Some Afghan cabinet ministers had said they no longer wanted to work with him.
EU election observers have said that about 1.5m votes - about a quarter of all ballots - cast in the presidential vote could be fraudulent.
They say that 1.1 million votes cast for President Karzai are suspicious.