The Pakistani military conducted air raids potentially killed dozens while targeting alleged Pakistani Taliban militants in the rural Paktika Province of Afghanistan Tuesday night.

Pakistan’s airstrikes on eastern Afghanistan killed 46 people, mostly women and children, a Taliban government official said Wednesday, raising fears of further straining relations between the two neighbors.

Pakistani security officials told the AP their mission was to kill insurgents and bomb a training facility. Afghanistan’s Foreign Ministry in the capital of Kabul said the nation “will not accept the violation of the country’s territory under any ...