Pakistani Rupee Currency Converter

The Pakistani rupee (Urdu: روپیہ‎ / ALA-LC: Rūpiyah; sign: ₨; code: abbreviated as PKR) has been the official currency of Pakistan since 1948. The coins and notes are issued and controlled by the central bank, namely State Bank of Pakistan. Since the United States dollar suspension in 1971 of convertibility of paper currency into any precious metal, Pakistani rupee is, de facto, fiat money. Before the collapse of Bretton Woods system, currency was pegged at fixed exchange rate to the United States dollar for international trade and was backed by the US gold. The currency was convertible to gold on demand. In Pakistani English, large values of rupees are counted in terms of thousands; lakh (100,000); crore (10 million); arab (1 billion); kharab (100 billion). With currencyconverts.com you can convert Pakistani Rupee (Rs) to any other foreign currency. To convert a certain amount of Pakistani Rupee use currency converter. This page provides a free online information about currency conversion or exchange rates for world fiat currencies. Exchange rates for Pakistani Rupee is calculated from mid-market real price and updates daily. Usually people search for PKR exchange rate before business travel to Pakistan, or during trip to other countries and want to check rate of Pakistani Rupee in local money. On this page you can convert Pakistani Rupee to main foreign currencies, get fast access to most used amounts of PKR or aether calculate any amount of Pakistani Rupee in other fiat money.