Original sentence: Despite the heavy influence of Persian on Urdu (and Hindi), linguistically, Urdu is not classified as an Iranian language (as is Persian) but rather as an Indo-Aryan language (like Gujarati, Kashmiri, Punjabi and Sindhi)
Edited sentence: Despite the heavy influence of Persian on Urdu, linguistically, Urdu is not classified as an Iranian language (as is Persian) but rather as an Indo-Aryan language (like Gujarati, Kashmiri, Punjabi and Sindhi)