Is Islamabad truly an elitist city ?

Lahori here, have been meaning to ask this question for quite some time. From my research and from speaking to my small social circle I get that Islamabad is a city made by the elite (obv through the pindi wokers) for the elite.

I have been there a couple of times and though I don't agree with the whole horizontal city scape (as opposed to both vertical and horizontal), I have to say that the city did look and feel modern. The roads are large, the air is clean(er than in Lahore) and the I love how the mountains are so close by.

Context behind the question being the fact that I'm doing some research on where to move to in the next year or so permanently.