The international silver price, converted to Pakistani Rupees at the live USD/PKR rate — a metal held both as a lower-cost precious-metal hedge and, industrially, as a key input in electronics and solar panels.
Source: Yahoo Finance, COMEX silver futures (SI=F), monthly closes.
Like gold, silver is priced internationally in US Dollars per troy ounce, and the PKR-per-gram and PKR-per-tola figures above are computed directly from that international price and the live USD/PKR exchange rate — not a local Sarafa Bazaar retail quote, which adds its own premiums and making charges.
Silver differs from gold in one important way: alongside its role as a store of value, it's a genuine industrial metal, used heavily in electronics, solar panels, and other manufacturing — so its price responds to industrial demand cycles as well as to the same safe-haven and currency-hedge dynamics that drive gold.
Because of this dual role, silver is typically more volatile than gold — its price swings tend to be larger in percentage terms in both directions, a pattern often summarized as silver having a higher 'beta' to gold.
Silver is a lower-cost entry point than gold for Pakistani households looking for a precious-metal hedge against inflation and Rupee depreciation, while carrying meaningfully higher price volatility.
Because a real share of global silver demand comes from electronics and solar panel manufacturing, its price is also a rough proxy for global industrial and green-energy demand trends, not purely a monetary or currency-hedge story the way gold mostly is.