The Taliban supreme leader has installed a loyalist cleric as Afghanistan’s education minister, with the hardline Islamists doubling down on their ban on secondary education for girls. Hundreds of thousands of girls and young women have been deprived of an education since the Taliban returned to power a year ago. Habibullah Agha, a member of reclusive supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada’s inner circle, was named the new education minister in a reshuffle announced by the government spokesman on Tuesday. “We can’t make any plans on our own. We don’t do that. Rather, I will act according to the …