Leadership has been shown to be one of many possible sources of stress in the workplace, but the magnitude of its effect varies across studies and by country. The research on leadership show that Eastern countries including Pakistan, China and Turkey exhibit the highest rates of paternalistic leadership. With this in mind, the purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between paternalistic leadership and job stress. Data collected from 155 employees showed that benevolent paternalistic leadership negatively and authoritarian paternalistic leadership positively effects role conflict.The results also showed that authoritarian paternalistic leadership positively effects workload. The interesting result of the study is benevolent and moral paternalistic leadership positively effect role ambiguity. The study provides fruitful results both for researchers and practitionars